Neel Mukherjee

Neel Mukherjee (2018)

Neel Mukherjee (born 1970 in Calcutta , West Bengal , India ) is an Indian author who writes in English .

Life

Mukherjee was educated at Don Bosco School, Park Circus in Calcutta and then studied English at Jadavpur University . He received a Rhodes scholarship to the University College (Oxford) until his graduation in 1992. He received his doctorate at Pembroke College , closing the subject Creative Writing in 2001 at the University of East Anglia in Norwich , County Norfolk from.

Since 2008 Mukherjee has published three novels, some of which have won awards. The author lives in London .

Prizes and awards

• Vodafone Crosswords Book Award in the English Fiction category for Past Continuous 2008
• for the same book Writer of the Year Award 2009, GQ India magazine
• List of proposals for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for A Life Apart 2011
• Encore Award for The Lives of Others 2014
• List of nominations for the Man Booker Prize 2014 for the same book

Works

• Past Continuous , Picador India, 2008.
• A Life Apart , Constable and Robinson, London 2010.
• The Lives of Others , Chatto & Windus, London 2014.
  • In other hearts , translated from English by Ditte and Giovanni Bandini, Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-95614-089-1 .
• A state of freedom . 2017
  • Life in one breath . Translation Giovanni and Ditte Bandini. Munich: Antje Kunstmann, 2018

Web links

• Literature by and about Neel Mukherjee in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Neel Mukherjee in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Neel Mukherjee , website (en)