Hari Kunzru
One of Granta’s 20 ‘Best Young British Novelists’, Hari Kunzru is an author and journalist with an impossibly long list of accolades to his name. A regular Port Eliot favourite, he’s also appeared at literary festivals from Hay to Hong Kong. His fiction tackles questions of identity and belonging in a style that merges the classic and the ultra-contemporary, while, as a journalist, he writes for the likes of Wired, Wallpaper*, the Guardian and the Telegraph.
Hari is the author of three novels: The Impressionist (2002), Transmission (2004) and My Revolutions (2007) and a short story collection entitled Noise (2005). The Impressionist – his first novel – won the 2003 Somerset Maugham award, The 2002 Betty Trask award, the Pendleton May first novel award and the John Llewellyn Rhys prize (which he declined). It also earned him a place on Granta’s list of the best British novelists under 40.
Hari will be telling us stories from the desert – talking about everything from aliens to Mormon avengers.
Hari’s website: www.harikunzru.com
“Hugely engaging… Rather like early Martin Amis, only nicer”.
Carol Ann Duffy, The Telegraph
“Relives the darker side of sixties radicalism.”
Tim Adams, The Observer.
Links:
- Listen to a podcast of Hari Kunzru discussing Transmissions
- Read Hari Kunzru’s latest Guardian columns here
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