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Manil Suri

American writer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1959 · age 67

Manil Suri is an Indian-American mathematician and writer of a trilogy of novels all named for Hindu gods. His first novel, The Death of Vishnu (2001), which was long-listed for the 2001 Booker Prize, short-listed for the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize that year.

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Since then, he has published two more novels, The Age of Shiva (2008) and The City of Devi (2013), completing the trilogy.

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Born 1959 · age 67

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