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Samanth Subramanian is an Indian writer and journalist based in London. [1] [2] He studied journalism at Penn State University and international relations at Columbia University. In 2018–19, he was a Leon Levy Fellow at the City University of New York. He is also a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian and WIRED.

Author

Subramanian's first book Following Fish: Travels Around the Indian Coast (2010, Penguin Books India) was a travelogue about Indian fisheries and seafood cuisine.

His second book This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan Civil War (2015, Atlantic Books, ISBN  978-0857895950) was nominated for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. [3] He became only the second Indian writer after Suketu Mehta to be nominated for this prestigious award for literary non-fiction. [1] [4] William Dalrymple, writing in The Guardian, considered it a remarkable and moving portrayal of the agonies of the conflict that "will stand as a fine literary monument against the government’s attempt at imposed forgetfulness". [2]

His third major work, A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane (2019) is a biography of J. B. S. Haldane. [5] The book has been selected as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2020 by The New York Times. [6]

His articles cover a wide variety of subjects ranging from land reclamation in Singapore [7] to Tamil pulp fiction. [8]

References

  1. ^ a b "Samanth Subramanian Becomes The Second Indian To Be Longlisted For The Samuel Johnson Prize". HuffPost. September 22, 2015. Retrieved May 6, 2016.
  2. ^ a b Dalrymple, William (March 9, 2015). "This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War review – a moving portrayal of the agonies of the conflict". The Guardian. Retrieved May 6, 2016.
  3. ^ "Samanth Subramanian | Authors | Macmillan". US Macmillan. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  4. ^ "Sri Lanka: A 'divided island' forever? – DW speaks to Samanth Subramanian | DW | 13.02.2020". DW.COM. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  5. ^ "Samanth Subramanian: 'You Don't Need To Be Apolitical To Be Scientifically Objective'". HuffPost India. 2020-02-02. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  6. ^ "100 Notable Books of 2020". The New York Times. 12 December 2020. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  7. ^ "How Singapore Is Creating More Land for Itself". The New York Times. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  8. ^ "Meet Rajesh Kumar, Author of 1500 Novels". Live Mint. Retrieved September 6, 2022.

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