Nikesh Shukla

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Nikesh Shukla (born in London ) is a British writer.

Life

Nikesh Shukla grew up in the migrant milieu of the British Asians in the London borough of Harrow . His father was a Kenyan Indian who moved to England with his parents. He is a spoken word poet and released his first album as a musician in 2004. He has published several essays, short stories, and novels and is a columnist for The Guardian . He wrote a sitcom for Channel 4 in 2011 . In 2014 he co-wrote the short film Two Dosas . In 2017 he edited the book of short stories The Good Immigrant by "21 British writers of color" and then founded The Good Journal .

His novel Coconut Unlimited was shortlisted for First Novel at the 2010 Costa Book Awards . In 2015 he was a juror at the Kitchies literary prize .

He has lived in Bristol with his wife and children since 2011 .

Works (selection)

  • A Tale of British Justice , in: Barbara Korte, Eva Ulrike Pirker (Eds.): Britain rewritten: stories of a multi-ethnic nation . Stuttgart: Reclam, 2007 ISBN 978-3-15-019729-5 , p. 104 (first 2005)
  • Coconut Unlimited . Quartet Books, 2010
  • Kieran Yates, Nikesh Shukla: Summer of Unrest: Generation Vexed: What the English Riots Don't Tell Us About Our Nation's Youth . London: Vintage Digital, 2011
  • The Time Machine . New York: Galley Beggar Press, 2013
  • Meatspace . London: HarperCollins, 2015
  • (Ed.): The Good Immigrant . Essays. London: Unbound, 2017
  • The One who Wrote Destiny . London: Atlantic Books, 2018

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Max Liu: Two worlds, two identities, one reality: Nikesh Shukla explores the impact of the internet on lonely lives , The Independent, July 12, 2014
  2. ↑ Nikesh Shukla , short biography with Barbara Korte, Eva Ulrike Pirker, 2007, p. 196
  3. ↑ Nikesh Shukla in conversation with Josie Long , at Waterstones , April 6, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Shukla, Nikesh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH London