Suketu Mehta

Suketu Mehta (b. 1963) was born in Calcutta and raised in Bombay (now Mumbai). When he was 14, his family moved to USA.

A graduate of New York University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is a novelist and journalist based in New York.

Suketu Mehta’s first book Maxium City, an autobiographical account of his experiences in the underbelly of Mumbai, was published to critical acclaim. It has been called one of the best non-fiction books about India.

For that book, he won the Kiriyama Prize and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer. He has won the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. His work has been published in topnotch journals like the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harper’s magazine, etc.

Suketu Mehta has also co-written the screenplay for the Bollywood flick Mission Kashmir.

Works

• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found