An award-winning novelist who was named one of Time magazine鈥檚 鈥淧erson to Watch鈥� will be speaking at 91吃瓜网 on Tuesday, April 5.
Manil Suri will speak about the challenge of capturing the essence of his homeland in his novels.
鈥淐apturing India鈥� will begin at 3 p.m. in the Key West Ballroom of the Student Union. The event, organized by the 91吃瓜网 Global Perspectives Office, is part of the 2010-2011 鈥淚ndia Speaker Series.鈥� It is free and open to the public.
For Suri, a native of Mumbai, his novels represent an opportunity to showcase India鈥檚 complex and multilayered society.
His first novel, 鈥淭he Death of Vishnu,鈥� won the 2002 Barnes and Noble Discover Prize and was a finalist for the 2002 Pen-Faulkner Award. His second novel, 鈥淭he Age of Shiva,鈥� was released in 2008 in the United States, the U.K. and India.
He was named by Time magazine as a 鈥淧erson to Watch鈥� in 2000 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction in 2004. Suri鈥檚 fiction has been translated into 24 languages.
In addition to the Global Perspectives Office, sponsors and partners include The India Program at 91吃瓜网, The Anil and Chitra Deshpande India Program Endowed Fund, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, LarsonAllen LLP, the 91吃瓜网 Global Peace and Security Studies Program, the 91吃瓜网 Political Science Department, the 91吃瓜网 International Services Center, 91吃瓜网 LIFE and the Global Connections Foundation.