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    Akhil Sharma

    Akhil Sharma is the author of Family Life, a New York Times Best Book of the Year and the winner of the International DUBLIN Literary
    Award and the Folio Prize. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Best American Short Stories, and O. Henry Award Stories. A native of Delhi, he lives in New York City and teaches English at Rutgers University–Newark.

     

    Akhil Sharma

    Akhil Sharma is the author of Family Life, a New York Times Best Book of the Year and the winner of the International DUBLIN Literary
    Award and the Folio Prize. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Best American Short Stories, and O. Henry Award Stories. A native of Delhi, he lives in New York City and teaches English at Rutgers University–Newark.

     

    Awards

    Winner — International Dublin Literary Award, 2016

    Winner — Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, 2001

    Winner — PEN/Hemingway Award, 2001

    Books by Akhil Sharma

    • Family Life: A Novel

      Akhil Sharma

      Hardback, 2014

      Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2014 by the New York Times Book Review and New York Magazine

      "Gorgeously tender at its core…beautiful, heartstopping…Family Life really blazes." —Sonali...

    • An Obedient Father

      Akhil Sharma

      Paperback, 2014

      “A powerful debut novel that establishes Sharma as a supreme storyteller.”—Philadelphia Inquirer

    • Family Life: A Novel

      Akhil Sharma

      Paperback, 2015

      One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels

      Winner of the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award

      "Gorgeously tender at its core…beautiful, heartstopping…Family Life really blazes." —Sonali...

    • A Life of Adventure and Delight

      Akhil Sharma

      Hardback, 2017

      “There’s a great duality to these stories: simple but complex, funny enough to laugh out loud at but emotionally devastating, foreign yet familiar. What an exciting and original writer this is, and...

    • A Life of Adventure and Delight

      Akhil Sharma

      Paperback, 2018

      A Life of Adventure and Delight delivers eight masterful stories from dazzlingly original and critically acclaimed author Akhil Sharma.

    • Family Life: A Novel

      Akhil Sharma

      E Book, 2014

      Winner of the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award

      "Gorgeously tender at its core…beautiful, heartstopping…Family Life really blazes." —Sonali Deraniyagala, New York Times Book Review

    • A Life of Adventure and Delight

      Akhil Sharma

      E Book, 2017

      A Life of Adventure and Delight delivers eight masterful stories from dazzlingly original and critically acclaimed author Akhil Sharma.

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