Sonia faleiro biography

Hi there, I’m Sonia Faleiro—a writer in London who also develops initiatives to amplify underrepresented voices and foster real-world change. My chief commitment is to programs that make a genuine impact.

My latest book, The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing (Bloomsbury/Grove Atlantic, 2021), was nominated for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, the ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-fiction, and the Premio Inge Feltrinelli.

It was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a Sunday Times Book of the Year, and a Human Rights Watch Book Club pick. It has been translated into French, Italian, and Polish. I’m now working on two major projects: an investigation into the rise of Buddhist extremism (Columbia Global Reports, 2025) and co-editing a collection of testimonies on the genocide in Gaza (Unbound, 2025).

Before this, I authored Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars (Canongate, Grove Atlantic, 2011), a non-fiction book shortlisted for the Lettre Uly