Suketu Mehta
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, based on two and a half years research,[2] 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 a Whiting 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.
Works
- "In the Violent Favelas of Brazil". The New York Review of Books. 15 August 2013.
- Maximum City. Knopf. 2004. ISBN 978-0-67004-921-9.
References
External links
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- Suketu Mehta, official web site.
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- 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