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Jeet Thayil

Born:
  • Kerala, India

Biography

Jeet Thayil was born in Kerala, India in 1959 and was educated in Hong Kong, New York and Bombay. He is a performance poet and songwriter with four published collections of poetry: Gemini (1992); Apocalypso (1997); English (2004) and These Errors Are Correct (2008).

He is also the editor of Divided Time: India and the End of Diaspora (2006), a book of essays; the Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (2008); and 60 Indian Poets (2008).

In 2012, he wrote the libretto for the opera, Babur in London, in collaboration with the composer Edward Rushton.

His first novel, Narcopolis (2012), set in Bombay in the 1970s and '80s,was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Jeet Thayil lives in New Delhi, India.

Bibliography

Narcopolis
Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets
60 Indian Poets
These Errors Are Correct
Divided Time: India and the End of Diaspora
English
Apocalypso
Gemini

Awards

2012
Man Booker Prize for Fiction

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