Jeet Thayil is an Indian poet, novelist, librettist, and musician. He is the author of several poetry collections, including These Errors Are Correct (2008), which won the Sahitya Akademi Award. 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, in1959. His father is writer and editor Thayil Jacob Sony George. Thayil was raised in Mumbai, then moved to Hong Kong, and returned where he graduated from Wilson College. He later completed an MFA at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Thayil lived in Mumbai and Bengaluru and worked as a journalist in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hong Kong, and New York.
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