Neel Mukherjee (writer)


Neel Mukherjee is an Indian English-language writer based in London. He is the author of several critically acclaimed novels. He is also the brother of famous television anchor and editor Udayan Mukherjee.
His first novel, Past Continuous won the Vodafone-Crossword Book Award in 2008 and several more awards when republished in the U.K. in 2010. His second novel, The Lives of Others was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award.

Life

Mukherjee was educated at Don Bosco School, Park Circus, Kolkata. He studied English at Jadavpur University and then attended University College, Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship, where he studied English and graduated in 1992. He completed his Ph.D. at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and graduated with an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in 2001.
He reviews fiction for a variety of publication in the U.K. and U.S., including The Times and Time Asia.
Describing the unexpected ease with which he wrote The Lives of Others, he described the process:

Books

''Past Continuous'' or ''A Life Apart''

Published in India in January 2008 as Past Continuous. Republished in the U.K. in January 2010 as A Life Apart
Published in May 2014
Set in Calcutta in 1967. Idealistically motivated Supratik has become associated with extremist political activism. He disappears, leaving only a note. The life and fortunes of the family he has left behind take a disastrous turn, mirrored in the society around them.

''A State of Freedom''

Published in July 2017