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Neel Mukherjee Biography

Neel Mukherjee's third novel, A State of Freedom, was published in the UK (Chatto & Windus), in India (Hamish Hamilton), and in the USA (Norton) in January 2018.

His second novel, The Lives of Others (Chatto & Windus), was published in the UK in May 2014, in India (by Vintage) in June 2014, and in the USA, by W.W. Norton & Company, in October 2014. The Lives of Others was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014. It was also shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. It won the Encore Award for best second novel in 2015.

His first novel, Past Continuous (Picador India, 2008), was joint winner of the Vodafone-Crossword Award, India's premier literary award for writing in English, for best novel of 2008 (along with Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies).

The UK edition of the novel, titled A Life Apart, was published by Constable & Robinson in January 2010. It won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Fiction and was shortlisted for the inaugural DSC Prize for South Asian Fiction and the Southbank Sky Arts Award. It was also chosen as a 'Book of the Year' in The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, the TLS and The Sunday Telegraph.

He lives in London.

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