Family Life, his autobiographical novel, is praised by judges as ‘the highest form of achievement in literature’ but the winner...
Akhil Sharma
Few authors, after receiving a prestigious literary prize, wish they had not written the winning book. But Akhil Sharma, newly...
Indian-American writer’s winning book, Family Life, which took him 13 years to complete, is praised by head judge as ‘a...
Penguin Random House has announced that Akhil Sharma’s Family Life is one of 8 books shortlisted for the Folio Prize in the...
A writer is not his books, says Amitava Kumar. He is only as good as his sentences. Reading and meeting Akhil...
A troubled story about the loneliness and despair of an Indian family whose American dream turns sour: Kristy Gunn in The Guardian...
Sharma's second novel, Family Life, took more than 12 years to write. Telling the story of a family wrought by...
Akhil Sharma on his twelve and half year-long journey, writing 7,000 pages for a novel, Family Life: I was...
The author of the year's first great novel reflects on the 12 long years it took to finish these 200...
VICE editor Krishna Andavolu sits down with novelist Akhil Sharma to discuss Sharma's novels (Family Life) and other writings Watch...
