Neel Mukherjee
Background
Neel Mukherjee is an Indian-born British novelist, critic, and academic. He earned his undergraduate degree at Jadavpur University, studied English literature at University College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, and completed his Ph.D. at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Past Continuous (published in the UK as A Life Apart, 2010), The Lives of Others (2014)—which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the RSL Encore Award—A State of Freedom (20
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London, United Kingdom / Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States / Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Occupation
• Harvard University (Department of English)
• Royal Society of Literature (Fellow)
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About: - Neel Mukherjee is an Indian-born British novelist, critic, and academic. He earned his undergraduate degree at Jadavpur University, studied English literature at University College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, and completed his Ph.D. at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Past Continuous (published in the UK as A Life Apart, 2010), The Lives of Others (2014)—which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the RSL Encore Award—A State of Freedom (2017), and Choice (2024). His literary works critically examine class stratifications, migration, economic inequality, labor exploitation, and political displacement. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he currently teaches creative writing at Harvard University.