1. Jeet Thayil was born on 1959 and is an Indian poet, novelist, librettist and musician.
13 Facts About Jeet Thayil
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Jeet Thayil is the author of several poetry collections, including These Errors Are Correct, which won the Sahitya Akademi Award.
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Jeet Thayil's father is writer and editor Thayil Jacob Sony George, and the family moved with his work.
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Jeet Thayil later completed an MFA at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.
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Until age 40, Jeet Thayil lived in Mumbai and Bengaluru, and worked as a journalist in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hong Kong, and New York.
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Jeet Thayil began using drugs after he returned to India at age 18.
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Jeet Thayil spent five years writing an 800-page draft of Narcopolis, and then split the draft into the 300-page Narcopolis and his later novels The Book of Chocolate Saints and Low.
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Jeet Thayil is the editor of the Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets, 60 Indian Poets and a collection of essays, Divided Time: India and the End of Diaspora.
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Jeet Thayil's poetry is included in Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry.
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Jeet Thayil is the author of the libretto for the opera Babur in London, commissioned by the UK-based Opera Group with music by the Zurich-based British composer Edward Rushton.
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Jeet Thayil was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 and The Hindu Literary Prize for his debut novel Narcopolis.
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In 2013, Jeet Thayil became the first Indian author to win the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, worth $50,000, for the novel Narcopolis.
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Jeet Thayil, writes a reviewer for Indian Book Critics, is good when he writes without personal exertions.