Suketu Mehta Explained

Suketu Mehta
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Awards:Kiriyama Prize,
Whiting Award

Suketu Mehta is the New York-based author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award.[1] His autobiographical account of his experiences in Mumbai, Maximum City, was published in 2004.[2] The book, based on two and a half years of research,[3] explores the underbelly of the city.

He has won a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta’s work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harper’s, Time, Newsweek, The New York Review of Books[4] and Scroll.in,[5] and has been featured on NPR’s Fresh Air, and NPR's All Things Considered. Mehta has also written original screenplays for films, including New York, I Love You (2008) and Mission Kashmir (2000) with novelist Vikram Chandra.

His latest book , was published in June 2019 [6] under a 2007 Guggenheim fellowship.

Personal life

Mehta was born in Kolkata, India, to Gujarati parents and raised in Mumbai, where he lived until his family moved to the New York area in 1977.[7] He is a graduate of New York University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Mehta is a cancer survivor.

Mehta is an Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University[8] and lives in Manhattan with his wife Darshana Narayanan.

Awards

Works

Filmography

As writer

Year Film Director Notes
2000 Mission Kashmir
2008 8 Segment "How Can It Be?"
New York, I Love You Segment 2

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Whiting.org.
  2. Web site: A Writer's Return to Bombay after 20 Years . 2022-07-24 . Fresh Air Archive: Interviews with Terry Gross . 6 December 2004 . en.
  3. Web site: Observer review: Maximum City by Suketa Mehta. TheGuardian.com. 6 February 2005.
  4. News: In the Violent Favelas of Brazil. August 15, 2013. Suketu. Mehta. The New York Review of Books.
  5. News: Around the world, there's a battle of storytelling about migrants and Muslims. Populists are winning. October 20, 2019. Suketu. Mehta. Scroll.in.
  6. Book: This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto. 4 June 2019. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  7. News: You can't go home again. February 19, 2005. Daniel. Neill. The Spectator.
  8. Web site: Suketu Mehta . . New York University . 28 August 2020 .
  9. News: Nayar . Mandira . Truth and dare A politically charged year will see equally charged non-fiction reads . 14 March 2019 . The Week . 29 December 2018.