Neel Mukherjee
Indian writer · India · On the map · Writers · Born 1970 · age 56
Neel Mukherjee, FRSL is an Indian English-language novelist based in London and the US. His first novel, Past Continuous, won the Vodafone-Crossword Book Award in 2008. Under its UK title, A Life Apart, it won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for best fiction in 2010.
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His second novel, The Lives of Others, was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award. He has also been shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Goldsmiths Prize. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018.
