Hari Kunzru
| Hari Kunzru | |
|---|---|
| Born | Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru 1969 (age 47–48) London, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | author, journalist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Ethnicity | British Indian of Kashmiri Pandit origin |
| Citizenship | British |
| Education | BA in English Language and Literature MA in Philosophy and Literature |
| Alma mater |
Wadham College, Oxford Warwick University |
| Genre | Translit |
| Notable works | Gods without Men |
| Spouse | Katie Kitamura |
| Website | |
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Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru (born 1969) is a British Indian novelist and journalist of Kashmiri Pandit origin, author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions and Gods Without Men. His work has been translated into twenty languages.
Kunzru was born in London and grew up in Essex to a Kashmiri Pandit father and a British Anglican Christian mother. He was educated at Bancroft's School, Essex. He studied English at Wadham College, Oxford, then gained an MA in Philosophy and Literature from University of Warwick. In his teens, Kunzru decided that he did not believe in formal religion or God, and is "opposed to how religion is used to police people."
His wife is the novelist Katie Kitamura. Kunzru is fascinated with UFOs and as a youngster often imagined a close-encounter type experience with them.
From 1995 to 1997 he worked on Wired UK. Since 1998, he has worked as a travel journalist, writing for such newspapers as The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph, was travel correspondent for Time Out magazine, and worked as a TV presenter interviewing artists for the Sky TV electronic arts programme The Lounge. From 1999–2004 he was also music editor of Wallpaper* magazine and since 1995 he has been a contributing editor to Mute, the culture and technology magazine. His first novel, The Impressionist (2003), had a £1 million-plus advance and was well received critically with excellent sales. His second novel, Transmission, was published in the summer of 2004. In 2005 he published the short story collection Noise. His third novel, My Revolutions, was published in August 2007. His fourth novel, Gods Without Men, was released in August 2011. Set in the American south-west, it is a fractured story about multiple characters across time. It has been compared to David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas.
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