Neel Mukherjee (writer)

Neel Mukherjee

Mukherjee (2018)
Mukherjee (2018)
Born1970 (age 53–54)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
CitizenshipIndia
Alma materJadavpur University
University College, Oxford
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Notable worksA Life Apart, The Lives of Others,
Notable awardsCrossword Book Award (2008)
Encore Award (2015)

Neel Mukherjee, FRSL (born 1970) is an Indian English-language writer based in London. He is the author of several critically acclaimed novels. He is also the brother of the television anchor and editor Udayan Mukherjee.

His first novel, Past Continuous, won the Vodafone-Crossword Book Award in 2008 and several more awards when republished in the U.K. in 2010 as A Life Apart. His second novel, The Lives of Others, was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018.