A man's journey to Mumbai to sprinkle his beloved's ashes turns into a drug-fuelled trip
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'LOW' MARKS THE END OF THAYIL'S GRIEF FILLED DRUG JOURNEY
In 2012, Nominated for Man Booker Prize
He is also the editor of Divided Time: India and the End of Diaspora (2006), a book of essays. In 2012, he wrote the libretto for the opera, Babur in London, in collaboration with the composer Edward Rushton.
Jeet Has Edited a few journals and books since 2005
VOX2 : Seven Stories 60 Indian PoetsThe Bloodaxe Book of contemporary Indian poetsDivided TimeGive the sea change and it shall change
His novel Narcopolis was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Jeet's poetry collection 'These Errors are Correct' was awarded the Sahitya Akademic Award
Jeet's Awards
2013
2013
2012
2012
Jeet becomes the first Indian author to win the DSC Prize for south Asian literature for his novel Narcopolis
Narcopolis wins The Hindu Literary Prize
EARLY LIFE
STATE
Mamalassery13 October, 1959
PLACE
Kerala, India
BORN
Mother
Father
Ammu
TJS George
JEET's WIFE
Shakti Bhatt (1980-2007)
"Thayil works his feelings out with care, through colourations of mood rather than through explicit statements"