Suketu Mehta

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Suketu Mehta (born 1963) is an acclaimed writer based in New York City. He was born in Calcutta, India, and raised in Mumbai where he lived until his family moved to the New York area in 1977. He has attended New York University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

His autobiographical account of his experiences with the city of Mumbai, Maximum City, was published in 2004. The book explores the underbelly of the sprawling city. It was a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Suketu Mehta also co-wrote the screenplay to the Bollywood film Mission Kashmir with novelist Vikram Chandra.

Suketu lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn. He is currently working on a book about the New York City immigrant experience. He will be joining the NYU journalism faculty in 2008.

[edit] Awards

He won the Whiting Writers' Award in 1997.
He won the O. Henry Prize for his short story Gare du Nord published in Harper's Magazine in 1997.
He won a Fellowship of the New York Foundation for the Arts.
He won a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship.
2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for the book Maximum City.
Maximum City was also chosen as one of the books of the year 2004 by The Economist.
Maximum City won the 2005 Kiriyama Prize.