An award-winning novelist who was named one of Time magazineβs βPerson to Watchβ will be speaking at ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½ on Tuesday, April 5.
Manil Suri will speak about the challenge of capturing the essence of his homeland in his novels.
βCapturing Indiaβ will begin at 3 p.m. in the Key West Ballroom of the Student Union. The event, organized by the ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½ Global Perspectives Office, is part of the 2010-2011 βIndia Speaker Series.β It is free and open to the public.
For Suri, a native of Mumbai, his novels represent an opportunity to showcase Indiaβs complex and multilayered society.
His first novel, βThe Death of Vishnu,β won the 2002 Barnes and Noble Discover Prize and was a finalist for the 2002 Pen-Faulkner Award. His second novel, βThe Age of Shiva,β was released in 2008 in the United States, the U.K. and India.
He was named by Time magazine as a βPerson to Watchβ in 2000 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction in 2004. Suriβs fiction has been translated into 24 languages.
In addition to the Global Perspectives Office, sponsors and partners include The India Program at ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½, The Anil and Chitra Deshpande India Program Endowed Fund, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, LarsonAllen LLP, the ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½ Global Peace and Security Studies Program, the ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½ Political Science Department, the ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½ International Services Center, ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½ LIFE and the Global Connections Foundation.