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Credit for photograph: Photo of Jeet Thayil by
Ashish Jaiswal |
As a boy Jeet Thayil traveled through much of the
Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia with his father, TJS George, a writer
and editor. He worked as a journalist for twenty-one years, in Bombay,
Bangalore, Hong Kong and New York City. In 2005 he began to write fiction. The
first installment of his Bombay Trilogy, Narcopolis, was shortlisted for
the Booker Prize and became an unlikely bestseller. His book of poems These
Errors Are Correct won the Sahitya Akademi Award (India’s National Academy
of Letters), and his musical collaborations include the opera Babur in
London. His essays, poetry and short fiction have appeared in the New
York Review of Books, Granta, TLS, Esquire, The London
Magazine, The Guardian and The Paris Review, among other venues. He
is the editor of The Penguin Book of Indian Poets.