Neel Mukherjee
Birth—1970
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Neel Mukherjee (born 1970) is an Indian writer writing in English. His book Past Continuous won the Vodafone-Crossword Book Award in 2008. His book The Lives of Others was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. It was subsequently awarded to Richard Flanagan for his book The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Mukherjee was educated at Don Bosco School, Park Circus, Kolkata. He read English at Jadavpur University before proceeding to University College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship where he studied English graduating in 1992. He completed his PhD at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in 2001. He reviews fiction for The Times and Time Magazine Asia and has written for the TLS, the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the New York Times, the Boston Review, the Sunday Telegraph and Biblio. He is also a contributing editor to the Boston Review. He divides his time between London and the USA. A Life Apart is his first novel. |