Neel Mukherjee
Booker Shortlisted novelist
Neel Mukherjee was born in Calcutta. His first novel, A Life Apart (2010), won the Vodafone-Crossword Award in India, the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award for best fiction, and was shortlisted for the inaugural DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. The Lives of Others, his second novel, was shortlisted for the 2014 Booker Prize. He lives in London.
‘Very ambitious and very successful. … One of Mukherjee’s great gifts is precisely his capacity to imagine the lives of others. … The whole of this world is brought to life with great skill … there are no longueurs, and no lingering on the text’s own cleverness, just extraordinary tact in knowing what we need to see and understand as we read. … Neel Mukherjee terrifies and delights us simultaneously.’ — A.S. Byatt, The Guardian
