Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese (* 1955 in Ethiopia ) is an Indian - American doctor and bestselling author.
Life
Verghese was born as the son of Indian Malankara Christians in Ethiopia, but had to leave the country due to political upheavals and has lived in the USA since the 1970s. His older brother, George Verghese, is a professor of engineering at MIT . First he worked as a doctor in Tennessee , then in Texas , where he also wrote his first two semi-autobiographical books about AIDS patients and his terminally ill tennis partner.
In 2013, Verghese received the Heinz Award , for 2015 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal .
Education and career
His medical training in Ethiopia was interrupted by the 1974 military coup. Verghese went to the United States with parents and two brothers before graduating from Madras Medical College in Chennai .
He has been with Stanford since 2007 . His autobiographical first book, My Own Country: A Doctor's Story , won the 1995 Lambda Literary Award . His third work and first novel, Return to Missing (Cutting for Stone) sold over a million copies and received the 2010 Indies Choice Book Award . It is about a pair of twins growing up as orphans in Ethiopia in the 1960s. As men, they fall in love with the same woman and become enemies.
Works
- 1994: My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
- 1999: The Tennis Partner: A Story of Friendship and Loss
- 2009: return to Missing
Web links
- Abraham Verghese in the nndb (English)
- Books by Abraham Verghese ( Memento from July 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Entertainment Weekly
Individual evidence
- ↑ Section: Early Years ( Memento from June 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on: December 31, 2012 (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Verghese, Abraham |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author of Indian descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ethiopia |