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- Sharma's first novel was An Obedient Father for which he won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.
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Jul 12, 2022 · Sharma had done a weird thing, something white-rhino rare in the history of literature: He had revised and radically rewritten a novel, his first, “An Obedient Father,” one he published 22...
- Wyatt Mason
Akhil Sharma (born July 22, 1971) is an Indian-American author and professor of creative writing. His first published novel An Obedient Father won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. His second, Family Life, won the 2015 Folio Prize and 2016 International Dublin Literary Award.
Jul 29, 2022 · Akhil Sharma on his experience writing his first novel, “An Obedient Father,” and then, after separating from his wife and losing a stable home, rewriting it.
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Jul 13, 2017 · In 2000, a 29-year-old Indian-American writer and investment banker named Akhil Sharma put himself on the American literary map by publishing An Obedient Father, a grimly comic, sprawling novel set in India around the 1991 assassination of Rajiv Ghandi. Article continues after advertisement.
- Dylan Foley
Aug 14, 2017 · by Marina N. Bolotnikova. Akhil Sharma Photograph by Nicholas Prakas. “‘Anita sometimes reads the newspapers,’ Ma said, and then became quiet at the absurdity of her words,” writes author Akhil Sharma, J.D. ’98, in “If You Sing Like That for Me,” one of eight pieces from his new short-story collection A Life of Adventure and Delight.
Akhil Sharma discusses his first book, ‘An Obedient Father.’. Part of ‘The Paris Review’'s “My First Time” video interview series.
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His first novel, An Obedient Father, won the 2001 PEN/Hemingway Award and the 2001 Whiting Writers’ Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His second novel, Family Life, is mostly autobiographical and was published to critical acclaim in 2014.
