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| Edited By: Kaartikeya Bajpai |Source: DNA webdesk |Updated: Jan 07, 2015, 01:15 PM IST
Kolkata-born Neel Mukherjee, born in 1970, is a British author whose first book, Past Continuous, won the Vodafone-Crossword Book Award in 2008 It was well received and was chosen as a 'Book of the Year’ by The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, the TLS and The Sunday Telegraph.
Having studied English at Jadavpur University, he went on to do his masters at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. Subsequently, he completed his PhD at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia.
Latest Book: The Lives of Others, set in troubled Bengal of the 1960s and centred around a dysfunctional family, was shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize 2014. Mukherjee was also the only Indian-origin author to be longlisted earlier this year. The book was also shortlisted for the Costa Novel award.
He has reviewed fiction for The Times and TIME Magazine Asia and has written for the TLS, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, The New York Times, Boston Review, The Sunday Telegraph and Biblio. He is also a contributing editor to Boston Review.
Quirky Fact: Neel feels most comfortable writing in the kitchen where the walls are the colour of Alphonso mangoes, and where cupboards open not to jars, but books.
