Siddhartha Mukherjee

Siddhartha Mukherjee (2017)

Siddhartha Mukherjee (* 1970 in New Delhi , India ) is an Indian-American writer , doctor and scientist .

For the book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (in German The King of All Diseases: Cancer - a biography ) he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction books in 2011. The book was also named one of the best 100 non-fiction books in 100 years by Time magazine and was named Knowledge Book of the Year 2012. Dieter Moor described the book in the program ttt - title, theses, spirits as a “literary miracle”.

Currently (as of 2012) Mukherjee works as an assistant professor at Columbia University and as a doctor at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City . He is married to the artist Sarah Sze and has two children.

Prizes and awards

• 2014: The Padma Shri Award from the Government of India
• 2017: Knowledge Book of the Year for Das Gen

filming

In 2016, based on the book The King of All Diseases: Cancer - A Biography, the two-part documentary Krebs - Eine Biographie produced by ZDF was published.

Publications

• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. Scribner, New York 2010, ISBN 978-1-439-10795-9 .
  • The king of all diseases. Cancer - a biography. Translated from the English by Barbara Schaden. With a foreword by Fritz Pleitgen . DuMont, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-8321-9644-8 .
• The Gene: An Intimate History. Scribner, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-476-73350-0 .
  • The gene - a very personal story. Translated from the English by Ulrike Bischoff . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-002271-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Siddhartha Mukherjee in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Siddhartha Mukherjee in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Siddhartha Mukherjee at perlentaucher.de
• Siddhartha Mukherjee's website
• The search for a phantom . Review of the book "Das Gen" on re-visionen.net