Samanth Subramanian


Samanth Subramanian is a writer and journalist based in India. He studied journalism at Penn State University and international relations at Columbia University. He is a Leon Levy Fellow at the City University of New York. He is also a regular contributor to The New Yorker and The Guardian.

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His second book This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan Civil War was nominated for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. He became only the second Indian writer after Suketu Mehta to be nominated for this prestigious award for literary non-fiction. William Dalrymple, writing in The Guardian, considered it a remarkable and moving portrayal of the agonies of the conflict that "will stand as a fine literary monument against the government’s attempt at imposed forgetfulness".
His A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane is a biography of J. B. S. Haldane.