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| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], India
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'''Neel Mukherjee''', [[FRSL]] (born 1970) is an [[India]]n [[English language|English]]-language writer based in [[London]]. He is the author of several critically acclaimed novels. He is also the brother of famous 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. His second novel, ''[[The Lives of Others (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.

== Life ==
Mukherjee was educated at [[Don Bosco School, Park Circus]], [[Kolkata]]. He studied English at [[Jadavpur University]] and then attended [[University College, Oxford]], on a [[Rhodes Scholarship]], where he studied English and graduated in 1992. He completed his Ph.D. at [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]], and graduated with an M.A. in [[Creative Writing]] from the [[University of East Anglia]] in 2001.

He reviews fiction for a variety of publication in the U.K. and U.S., including ''[[The Times]]'' and ''[[Time (magazine)|Time Asia]]''.<ref name=proto>{{cite news|title=I wanted a gay protagonist in my novel: Neel Mukherjee|url= http://www.news18.com/news/books/i-wanted-a-gay-protagonist-in-my-novel-neel-mukherjee-321410.html |access-date=3 August 2017|work=News 18|date=27 July 2009}}</ref>

Describing the unexpected ease with which he wrote ''[[The Lives of Others (novel)|The Lives of Others]]'', he described the process:<ref name=rsl>{{cite web |url=https://rsliterature.org/award/rsl-encore-award/ |title=RSL Encore Award |publisher=Royal Society of Literature |access-date=3 August 2017}}</ref>
{{Quote|''"Writers rarely have access to that part of their heads where books originate. One can talk cogently of influences, plotting, putting a book together, structuring, editing, everything, really, but origins are a far cloudier issue, the domain of the unconscious, mostly, so not readily available for truthful discussion.... I don't know whether my book started life as the story of a joint family in Calcutta at a critical juncture in history or as a reckoning with an ultra-left movement for social justice and equality around which the domestic story was built.... That way of talking about a book as which narrative came first is always already too late because the origins lie far earlier.... It was as if the book had already been there, waiting patiently to be let in; I only had to open the door."''}}

== Books ==
===''Past Continuous'' or ''A Life Apart''===
Published in India in January 2008 as ''Past Continuous''. Republished in the U.K. in January 2010 as ''A Life Apart''
* 2008 [[Vodafone Crossword Book Award]], English Fiction
* 2009 ''GQ'' (India) Writer of the Year Award
* 2011 [[DSC Prize for South Asian Literature]] shortlist
* [[Writers' Guild of Great Britain]] Award for best fiction
: "the saga of a lonely young gay man who flees a miserable life in Kolkata to the freedom of Britain"<ref name=proto/>

===''[[The Lives of Others (novel)|The Lives of Others]]''===
Published in May 2014
*2014 [[Encore Award]] from the Royal Society of Literature for the best second novel<ref name=rsl/>
*[[2014 Man Booker Prize]] shortlist<ref>{{cite news|title=Man Booker Prize: Howard Jacobson makes shortlist|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29123941|website=[[BBC News]]|access-date=3 August 2017|date=9 September 2014}}</ref>
*2016 [[DSC Prize for South Asian Literature]] shortlist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dscprize.com/global/updates/dsc-prize-2016-announces-a-shortlist-of-6-novels.html |title=DSC Prize 2016 Announces a Shortlist of 6 Novels |date=26 November 2015 |access-date=3 August 2017}}</ref>

Set in Calcutta in 1967. Idealistically motivated Supratik has become associated with extremist political activism. He disappears, leaving only a note. The life and fortunes of the family he has left behind take a disastrous turn, mirrored in the society around them.

===''A State of Freedom''===
The prologue was published in Granta 130

== References ==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite journal |last=Harikrishnan |first=Charmy |date=6 October 2014 |title=The life of Neel |department=Profile |journal=[[India Today]] |volume=39 |issue=40 |pages=70–71 }}

== External links ==
* {{Official}}
* [http://literature.britishcouncil.org/neel-mukherjee Profile] at the [[British Council]]
* [https://penguin.co.in/book_author/neel-mukherjee/ Neel Mukherjee] at [[Penguin India]]

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[[Category:Indian male novelists]]
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[[Category:Writers from Kolkata]]
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[[Category:Don Bosco schools alumni]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian novelists]]
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