Neel Mukherjee

Neel Mukherjee was born in Calcutta and educated in Calcutta, Oxford, and Cambridge. He has reviewed fiction for The Times and TIME Magazine Asia and has written for the TLS, the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the New York Times, the Boston Review, the Sunday Telegraph and Biblio. He is also a contributing editor to Boston Review. He lives in London. His first novel, Past Continuous (Picador India, 2008), was joint winner of the Vodafone-Crossword Award, India’s premier literary award for writing in English, for best novel of 2008 (along with Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies). The UK edition of the novel, titled A Life Apart, was published by Constable & Robinson in January 2010. It won the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Fiction. It has also been chosen as a ‘Book of the Year’ in The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, the TLS and The Sunday Telegraph. His second novel, The Lives of Others, is out from Chatto & Windus in January 2014. He begins a regular column on undeservedly forgotten great writers in Boston Review from January 2013.