Jeet Thayil

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2012

[ From the archives of the Times of India]

Jeet Thayil in race for Man Booker prize

Noted Indian poet and writer Jeet Thayil is among 12 authors long-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction worth 50,000 pounds and an assured spurt in the sales of the prize-winning book. Kerala-born Thayil is the only Indian writer in this year’s long-list that includes known writers such as Will Self and Hilary Mantel. Thayil’s book selected for the long-list is titled ‘Narcopolis’. Thayil was in news during the Jaipur Lit Fest in January this year, when he along with Ruchir Joshi, Hari Kunzru and Amitava Kumar were asked to leave the city after they read out excerpts from Salman Rushdie’s banned novel, ‘The Satanic Verses’.