Manu Joseph

Manu Joseph is an Indian journalist and writer. He is the former editor of Open magazine.
Manu was born in Kottayam, Kerala on 22 July 1974, and grew up in Chennai. He is a graduate of Loyola College, Chennai, a former editor of Open magazine, and a columnist for The International New York Times and The Hindustan Times. In 2007, he was a Chevening Scholar. His debut novel Serious Men (2010) won The Hindu Literary Prize and the PEN/Open Book Award. His second novel, The Illicit Happiness of Other People, was published in September 2012. Manu is the creator and writer of Decoupled, an Indian English-language comedy web series released on Netflix on 17 December 2021. He has been awarded special honors such as the Man Asian Literary Prize shortlisted for Serious Men and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize shortlisted for Serious Men. * (Collected from the public domain) UPDATED ON 01/10/2024