Suketu Mehta

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Suketu Mehta (born 1963) is a writer based in New York City.^[1] He was born in Kolkata, India, and raised in Mumbai where he lived until his family moved to the New York area in 1977.^[1] He has attended New York University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.^[1]

His autobiographical account of his experiences in the city of Mumbai, Maximum City, was published in 2004.^[1] The book explores the underbelly of the sprawling city.^[1] 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 Manhattan. He is currently working on a book about the New York City immigrant experience. He joined the New York University journalism faculty in 2008.

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.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Interview, Terry Gross, Fresh Air, NPR.

External links

Suketu Mehta, official web site.
Interview with the Wall Street Journal
Interview in The Believer magazine by Karan Mahajan
Interview with Venkatesan Vembu, Daily News & Analysis
Lettre Ulysses Award Biography (broken link as of 27 Oct 2012)
SAJAforum on his NYU appointment

Authority control	VIAF: 85571152 ISNI: 0000 0000 7848 443X BNF: cb15112226z

Persondata
Name	Mehta, Suketu
Alternative names
Short description	Indian–American writer
Date of birth	1963
Place of birth	Kolkata, India
Date of death
Place of death

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.