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Jeet Thayil was born on 13 October, 1959 in Mamalassery, Kerala, India, is an Indian writer (born 1959). Discover Jeet Thayil's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?

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Occupation Author, Journalist, Poet, Musician, Guitarist
Age 64 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 13 October, 1959
Birthday 13 October
Birthplace Mamalassery, Kerala, India
Nationality India

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1959

Jeet Thayil (born 1959) is an Indian poet, novelist, librettist and musician.

1992

His poetry collections include Gemini (1992), Apocalypso (1997), English (2004), These Errors Are Correct (2008), and Collected Poems (2015).

2006

In 2006, he told The Hindu that he had been an alcoholic and an addict for almost two decades.

He began using drugs after he returned to India at age 18.

2008

He is the author of several poetry collections, including These Errors Are Correct (2008), which won the Sahitya Akademi Award.

Thayil is the editor of the Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (Bloodaxe, UK, 2008), 60 Indian Poets (Penguin India, 2008) and a collection of essays, Divided Time: India and the End of Diaspora (Routledge, 2006).

2012

His first novel, Narcopolis, (2012), won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize and The Hindu Literary Prize.

Thayil was born in Kerala, India.

His father is writer and editor Thayil Jacob Sony George, and the family moved with his work.

Thayil was raised in Mumbai until age 8, then moved to Hong Kong, and returned to Mumbai at age 18 where he graduated from Wilson College.

He later completed an MFA at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.

Until age 40, Thayil lived in Mumbai and Bengaluru, and worked as a journalist in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hong Kong, and New York.

His first novel, Narcopolis (2012), is set mostly in Bombay in the 1970s and '80s, and sets out to tell the city's secret history, when opium gave way to new cheap heroin.

Thayil has said he wrote the novel: "to create a kind of memorial, to inscribe certain names in stone. As one of the characters [in Narcopolis] says, it is only by repeating the names of the dead that we honour them. I wanted to honour the people I knew in the opium dens, the marginalised, the addicted and deranged, people who are routinely called the lowest of the low; and I wanted to make some record of a world that no longer exists, except within the pages of a book."

The world premiere of Babur took place in Switzerland in 2012, followed by tours to the United Kingdom (performed at theatres in London and Oxford) and India.

At the work's core is an exploration about the complexities of faith and multiculturalism in modern-day Britain.

Its action hinges on an imagined encounter between a group of religious fundamentalists and the ghost of Babur, who challenges their plans for a suicide strike.

In 2012, Thayil's poetry collection These Errors are Correct was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for English.

He was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 and The Hindu Literary Prize (2013) for his debut novel Narcopolis.

2013

In 2013, he told Gulf News that he successfully quit at age 42.

As a songwriter and guitarist, he is one half of the contemporary music project Sridhar/Thayil (Mumbai, New Delhi).

In 2013, Thayil became the first Indian author to win the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, worth $50,000, for the novel Narcopolis.

The Indian poet Dom Moraes, in his introduction to Thayil's first book of poems (with poet Vijay Nambisan), Gemini, said that Thayil did not trouble his mind with the concerns of many Indian poets, their Indianness, that he did not make statements that were irrelevant to his work, that his concerns were mainly personal.

Thayil, Moraes said, "works his feelings out with care, through colourations of mood rather than through explicit statements."

About Narcopolis, Thayil said, "I've always been suspicious of the novel that paints India in soft focus, a place of loved children and loving elders, of monsoons and mangoes and spices. To equal Bombay as a subject you would have to go much further than the merely nostalgic will allow. The grotesque may be a more accurate means of carrying out such an enterprise."

Thayil, writes a reviewer for Indian Book Critics, is good when he writes without personal exertions (review for Collected Poems).

2015

His poetry is included in Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry (United States, 2015).

He is the author of the libretto for the opera Babur in London, commissioned by the UK-based Opera Group with music by the Zürich-based British composer Edward Rushton.

2016

In 2016, he was the Arts Queensland Poet-In-Residence.

2017

His other novels include The Book of Chocolate Saints (2017), Low (2020), and Names of the Women (2021).

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.