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Suketu Mehta
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Suketu Mehta was born in Calcutta in 1963 and raised in Bombay and New York.
Mehta's first book, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found,
won the Kiriyama Prize, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize.
He has won the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New
York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta's work
has been published in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harper's, Time, Condé Nast Traveler, and The Village Voice, and has been featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.
He is currently writing an original screenplay for The Goddess, a Merchant-Ivory film starring Tina Turner. Mehta also cowrote Mission Kashmir, a Bollywood movie. |
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WORLD VOICES EVENTS
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 Saturday, April 29 at 5:00
The Global City |
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Mehta Online
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www.suketumehta.com
List to "A Writer's Return to Bombay After 20 Years" on NPR. >>More
Read Mehta's article "The Great Awakening" in The New York Times. >>More
Read an excerpt from Maximum City. >>More
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