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Akhil Sharma


India (b.1971)

Born in Delhi, Sharma emigrated to the U.S. at the age of eight, and attended Princeton University, where he studied writing with Toni Morrison, Russell Banks, Joyce Carol Oates, and Paul Auster, among others. After graduation, Sharma was awarded a Stegner Fellowship in the Stanford University Creative Writing Program. He subsequently earned a degree at Harvard Law School.

Sharma's short fiction has appeared in the Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies. His short story "Cosmopolitan" was adapted as a 2003 TV movie that was featured on the PBS series, Independent Lens.
 
 
Novels
   An Obedient Father (2000)
   Family Life (2014)
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Akhil Sharma recommends
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West (2018)
Carys Davies
"Menace and mordant wit are the blood that runs through these veins, but there's a pulse of wonder in Carys Davies' West. She sees the world and its inhabitants both as we hope they are and as we fear that they might be. An audacious and enigmatic debut of thrilling dimensions, and a reminder of fiction's possibilities."
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Gork, the Teenage Dragon (2017)
Gabe Hudson
"Gork, the Teenage Dragon is sure to become an instant classic, destined to be loved by all sorts of readers through the ages."

Anthologies containing stories by Akhil Sharma
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100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor
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Tales of Two Cities (2015)
The Best and Worst of Times in Today's New York
edited by
John Freeman

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Awards
Rathbone Folio Prize Best Book winner (2015) : Family Life
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Book winner (2016) : Family Life


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