Indian-American
author Akhil Sharma won The Folio Prize 2015 for novel Family Life
Indian-American novelist Akhil Sharma’s
novel Family Life has won the prestigious Folio Prize 2015. His novel was among
the eight shortlisted books from 80 fictional works and was chosen as the best
fiction novel published in the United Kingdom in 2014. Family Life is Sharma’s
second novel and took him 13 years to write. Akhil Sharma was born in Delhi and
later in 1979 immigrated to US along with his family. His first novel was An
Obedient Father published in 2000. It has won the prestigious PEN/Hemingway
Foundation Award in 2001. His stories also have been published in The New
Yorker and in Atlantic Monthly.
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