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Elected: 2018
Year of birth: 1970
Neel Mukherjee was born in India and now lives between London and the US, where he teaches at Harvard. He is the author of several critically acclaimed novels. His first, A Life Apart, won the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Fiction. The Lives of Others, an epic saga telling the story of a Bengali family in Calcutta, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award. ‘One of Mukherjee’s great gifts,’ wrote A.S. Byatt in her Guardian review, ‘is precisely his capacity to imagine the lives of others.’
Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.
Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.