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	'''Suketu Mehta''' is the New York-based author of ''Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found'', which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/suketu-mehta#/\|title=Whiting.org}}</ref> His autobiographical account of his experiences in Mumbai, ''[[Maximum City]],'' was published in 2004.<ref name="npr">[https://www.npr.org/templates/dmg/dmg.php?prgCode=FA&showDate=06-Dec-2004&segNum=2&NPRMediaPref=WM Interview], [[Terry Gross]], ''[[Fresh Air]]'', [[NPR]].</ref> The book, based on two and a half years research,<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/feb/06/travel.features</ref> explores the underbelly of the city.<ref name="npr" />		'''Suketu Mehta''' is the New York-based author of ''Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found'', which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/suketu-mehta#/\|title=Whiting.org}}</ref> His autobiographical account of his experiences in Mumbai, ''[[Maximum City]],'' was published in 2004.<ref name="npr">[https://www.npr.org/templates/dmg/dmg.php?prgCode=FA&showDate=06-Dec-2004&segNum=2&NPRMediaPref=WM Interview], [[Terry Gross]], ''[[Fresh Air]]'', [[NPR]].</ref> The book, based on two and a half years research,<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/feb/06/travel.features\|title = Observer review: Maximum City by Suketa Mehta\|date = 6 February 2005}}</ref> explores the underbelly of the city.<ref name="npr" />

	He has won a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta’s work has been published in ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''National Geographic, Granta'', ''Harper’s'', ''Time'', ''Newsweek'', [[The New York Review of Books]]<ref>{{cite news\|title=In the Violent Favelas of Brazil\|url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2013/08/15/violent-favelas-brazil/\|date=August 15, 2013\|first=Suketu\|last=Mehta\|publisher=[[The New York Review of Books]]}}</ref> and [[Scroll.in]],<ref>{{cite news\|title=Around the world, there's a battle of storytelling about migrants and Muslims. Populists are winning		He has won a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta’s work has been published in ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''National Geographic, Granta'', ''Harper’s'', ''Time'', ''Newsweek'', ''[[The New York Review of Books]]''<ref>{{cite news\|title=In the Violent Favelas of Brazil\|url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2013/08/15/violent-favelas-brazil/\|date=August 15, 2013\|first=Suketu\|last=Mehta\|publisher=[[The New York Review of Books]]}}</ref> and [[Scroll.in]],<ref>{{cite news\|title=Around the world, there's a battle of storytelling about migrants and Muslims. Populists are winning
	\|url=https://scroll.in/article/939761/around-the-world-theres-a-battle-of-storytelling-about-migrants-and-muslims-populists-are-winning\|date=October 20, 2019\|first=Suketu\|last=Mehta\|publisher=[[Scroll.in]]}}</ref> and has been featured on NPR’s ''Fresh Air,'' and NPR's ''All Things Considered''. Mehta has also written original screenplays for films, including ''New York, I Love You'' (2008) and ''[[Mission Kashmir]]''{{when\|date=May 2019}} with novelist [[Vikram Chandra (novelist)\|Vikram Chandra]].		\|url=https://scroll.in/article/939761/around-the-world-theres-a-battle-of-storytelling-about-migrants-and-muslims-populists-are-winning\|date=October 20, 2019\|first=Suketu\|last=Mehta\|publisher=[[Scroll.in]]}}</ref> and has been featured on NPR’s ''Fresh Air,'' and NPR's ''All Things Considered''. Mehta has also written original screenplays for films, including ''New York, I Love You'' (2008) and ''[[Mission Kashmir]]''{{when\|date=May 2019}} with novelist [[Vikram Chandra (novelist)\|Vikram Chandra]].

	His latest book ''[[This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto]],'' was published in June 2019		His latest book ''[[This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto]],'' was published in June 2019
	<ref>https://www.amazon.com/This-Land-Our-Immigrants-Manifesto-ebook/dp/B0796XBPMS</ref> under a 2007 Guggenheim fellowship.		<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://www.amazon.com/This-Land-Our-Immigrants-Manifesto-ebook/dp/B0796XBPMS\|title = This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto\|date = 4 June 2019\|publisher = Farrar, Straus and Giroux}}</ref> under a 2007 Guggenheim fellowship.

	==Personal life==		==Personal life==
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	*2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for the book ''Maximum City''.		*2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for the book ''Maximum City''.
	*''Maximum City'' was also chosen as one of the books of the year 2004 by [[The Economist]].		*''Maximum City'' was also chosen as one of the books of the year 2004 by ''[[The Economist]]''.
	*''Maximum City'' won the 2005 [[Kiriyama Prize]].		*''Maximum City'' won the 2005 [[Kiriyama Prize]].

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'''Suketu Mehta''' is the New York-based author of ''Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found'', which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/suketu-mehta#/|title=Whiting.org}}</ref> His autobiographical account of his experiences in Mumbai, ''[[Maximum City]],'' was published in 2004.<ref name="npr">[https://www.npr.org/templates/dmg/dmg.php?prgCode=FA&showDate=06-Dec-2004&segNum=2&NPRMediaPref=WM Interview], [[Terry Gross]], ''[[Fresh Air]]'', [[NPR]].</ref> The book, based on two and a half years research,<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/feb/06/travel.features</ref> explores the underbelly of the city.<ref name="npr" />

He has won a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta’s work has been published in ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''National Geographic, Granta'', ''Harper’s'', ''Time'', ''Newsweek'', [[The New York Review of Books]]<ref>{{cite news|title=In the Violent Favelas of Brazil|url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2013/08/15/violent-favelas-brazil/|date=August 15, 2013|first=Suketu|last=Mehta|publisher=[[The New York Review of Books]]}}</ref> and [[Scroll.in]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Around the world, there's a battle of storytelling about migrants and Muslims. Populists are winning
|url=https://scroll.in/article/939761/around-the-world-theres-a-battle-of-storytelling-about-migrants-and-muslims-populists-are-winning|date=October 20, 2019|first=Suketu|last=Mehta|publisher=[[Scroll.in]]}}</ref> and has been featured on NPR’s ''Fresh Air,'' and NPR's ''All Things Considered''. Mehta has also written original screenplays for films, including ''New York, I Love You'' (2008) and ''[[Mission Kashmir]]''{{when|date=May 2019}} with novelist [[Vikram Chandra (novelist)|Vikram Chandra]].

His latest book ''[[This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto]],'' was published in June 2019
<ref>https://www.amazon.com/This-Land-Our-Immigrants-Manifesto-ebook/dp/B0796XBPMS</ref> under a 2007 Guggenheim fellowship.

==Personal life==
Mehta was born in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], to [[Gujarati people|Gujarati]] parents and raised in [[Mumbai]], where he lived until his family moved to the New York area in 1977.<ref name="npr" /><ref>{{cite news|title=You can't go home again|url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/2005/02/you-cant-go-home-again/|date=February 19, 2005|first=Daniel|last=Neill|publisher=[[The Spectator]]}}</ref> He is a graduate of [[New York University]] and the [[University of Iowa Writers' Workshop]].<ref name="npr" /> Mehta is a cancer survivor.

Mehta is an Associate Professor of Journalism at [[New York University]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/suketu-mehta/ |title=Suketu Mehta |author= |publisher=New York University |access-date=28 August 2020 }}</ref> and lives in Manhattan.

==Awards==
{{BLP unsourced section|date=May 2019}}
*He won a [[Whiting Awards|Whiting Award]] in 1997.
*He won the [[O. Henry Prize]] for his short story ''Gare du Nord'' published in [[Harper's Magazine]] in 1997.
*He won a Fellowship of the New York Foundation for the Arts.{{when|date=May 2019}}
*He won a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship.
*2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for the book ''Maximum City''.
*''Maximum City'' was also chosen as one of the books of the year 2004 by [[The Economist]].
*''Maximum City'' won the 2005 [[Kiriyama Prize]].

==Works==
*{{cite journal |date=15 August 2013 |title=In the Violent Favelas of Brazil |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/aug/15/violent-favelas-brazil/?pagination=false |journal=The New York Review of Books }}
* {{cite book|date=2004|title=Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0aFYAgAACAAJ&q=9780670049219|publisher=Knopf|isbn=978-0-67004-921-9}}
*''This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto''. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2019. {{ISBN|978-0-37427-602-7}}<ref name="NayarReads">{{cite news |last1=Nayar |first1=Mandira |title=Truth and dare A politically charged year will see equally charged non-fiction reads |url=https://www.theweek.in/theweek/cover/2018/12/29/truth-and-dare.html |access-date=14 March 2019 |publisher=The Week |date=29 December 2018}}</ref>

==Filmography==
{{BLP unsourced section|date=May 2019}}

===As Writer===

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! Year !! Film !! Director !! Notes
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| 2000 || ''[[Mission Kashmir]]'' || [[Vidhu Vinod Chopra]] ||
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|rowspan="2"|2008 || ''[[8 (2008 film)|8]]'' ||rowspan="2"|[[Mira Nair]] || Segment "How Can It Be?"
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| ''[[New York, I Love You]]'' || Segment 2
|-
|}

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Suketu Mehta}}
{{Wikiquote}}
*[http://www.suketumehta.com Suketu Mehta], official web site.
*[http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/suketu-mehta#/ Profile at The Whiting Foundation]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070207121612/http://www.suketumehta.com/wsje.html Interview] with the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]''
*[http://www.believermag.com/issues/200802/?read=interview_mehta Interview] in ''[[The Believer (magazine)|The Believer]]'' magazine by [[Karan Mahajan]]
*[http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1019127 Interview] with Venkatesan Vembu, ''[[Daily News & Analysis]]''
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061209131358/http://www.lettre-ulysses-award.org/authors05/mehta.html Lettre Ulysses Award Biography] (broken link as of 27 Oct 2012)
*[http://www.sajaforum.org/2007/05/moves_suketu_me.html SAJAforum on his NYU appointment]

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