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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 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.
Jul 12, 2022 · The unexpected question was posed by a man I’d just met — the 50-year-old, Delhi-born Indian American novelist, essayist and short-story writer Akhil Sharma — as we stood at the top of...
Jul 12, 2017 · Akhil Sharma: ‘I am an Immigrant’. Akhil Sharma takes his readers into the core of human experience. Nandini Nair | 12 Jul, 2017. An Obedient Father (2000), Family Life (2014), A Life of Adventure and Delight (2017), the very titles of Akhil Sharma’s books hint at the kind of author he is—precise and fuss free.
Akhil Sharma discusses his first book, ‘An Obedient Father.’. Part of ‘The Paris Review’'s “My First Time” video interview series.
Apr 7, 2014 · Akhil Sharma is the author of Family Life, a New York Times Best Book of the Year and the winner of the International DUBLIN Literary Award and the Folio Prize. His writing has appeared...
Apr 3, 2014 · Akhil Sharma’s new novel, “Family Life,” charts the lives of a boy and his parents as they struggle with grief and a recent move from India to America.
Mar 11, 2018 · Akhil Sharma was born in Delhi in India and emigrated to the USA in 1979. His stories have been published in the New Yorker and in Atlantic Monthly, and have been included in The Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Collections.
Akhil Sharma grew up in Delhi and in Edison, New Jersey. His first novel, An Obedient Father, won the 2001 PEN/Hemingway Award. His second novel, Family Life, received the International Dublin Literary Award and the Folio Prize.
Mar 23, 2015 · The Indian-American writer Akhil Sharma has been named winner of the second Folio prize for fiction for a novel which took him 13 long and painful years to complete, charting one emigrant...
