(United Kingdom, 1969) The writer and journalist Hari Kunzru has contributed to prestigious media such as
The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, Daily Telegraph, The Economist and
Wired. His first novel,
The Impressionist, was awarded the Betty Trask Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award. In 2003 the magazine Granta selected him as one of the twenty best young British novelists. The magazine Lire chose him as “one of fifty writers for the future”. His second book, Leila.exe, was rated by The New York Times as one of the best books of the year and it received the British Book Award. In 2005 he published a collection of stories,
Noise, followed by the novels
My Revolutions and
Gods Without Men. His work has been translated into twenty-one languages.