British · b. 1970
Neel Mukherjee's "The Lives of Others" (2014) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize—a novel about a Calcutta family in the 1960s, one son drawn to Naxalite revolution while the others pursue business and domesticity. Mukherjee was born in Calcutta and lives in London. His fiction examines Indian history through family drama, finding the political embedded in the personal.