Hari Kunzru

Hari Kunzru is a writer I admire for refusing easy subjects. From The Impressionist, which won the Somerset Maugham Award, through later novels translated into twenty languages, he keeps circling migration, memory, identity and technology without flinching. The combination of a journalist's eye and a novelist's imagination is potent, and he wields both. What interests me most is his vantage point: a writer of Indian heritage working from Britain and America, whose very position becomes part of the work. A Guggenheim Fellowship confirms the institutional regard, but it is the moral seriousness of his fiction that keeps me reading him.

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Name (English)

Hari Kunzru

Name (Japanese)

ハリ・クンズル

Reading

はり・くんずる

Born

December 1969

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Occupation

journalist / writer / novelist / editing staff

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Rooster

University

Wadham College

Awards & achievements

• 2014 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
• 2016 Berlin Prize
• 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2003 Somerset Maugham Award

• Official sitehttps://www.harikunzru.com
• Xhttps://x.com/harikunzru
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hari%20Kunzru
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1367133

Tags

• journalist
• writer
• novelist

Last updated

September 28, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.