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| Akhil Sharma author and professor of short story creative writer |
New Delhi Akhil Sharma, NRI lives in New York City, is the author of An Obedient Father, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Best American Short Stories, and O. Henry Award Stories.He is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark.  Of compelling characters in fewer pages: Short-story writer Akhil Sharma
New Delhi, July 19, 2017: The greatest challenge for a short story writer, says one of the foremost names in the field -- who might not be too well known in India but has built up an impressive resume in the US -- is to stick to its ideal length, with the writer captivating his readers in a way that they have no desire for more..............READ MORE
 Family Life,’ novel by Akhil Sharma, Wins Folio Prize
Los Angeles/March 25, 2015
Novel Family Life delivers a story of astonishing intensity and emotional precision.Novel tracks the Mishra family, who migrate to US … when one son suffers a freakish accident.The New York Times Book Review named the work one of the 10 best books of 2014After receiving the £40,000 prize, he said: ‘I’m glad the book exists, I just wish I hadn’t been the guy who wrote it.............READ MORE
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July 19, 2017: Akhil Sharma, 46, author and professor of short story creative writer.
- In 2001, he won Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for his first published novel An Obedient Father
- In 2015, he won Folio Prize for his second Family Life novel
- In 2016 he got International Dublin Literary Award.
- In July, 2017, Norton published Sharma's collection of short stories, A Life of Adventure and Delight
- In 1998, His short story "Cosmopolitan" was anthologized in The Best American Short Stories
- In 2003, it was also made film of the same name, which has appeared on the PBS series Independent Lens.
Sharma has published stories in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Fiction, the Best American Short Stories anthology, and the O. Henry Award Winners anthology
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