Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma grew up in Delhi and in Edison, New Jersey. His first novel, An Obedient Father , won the 2001 PEN/Hemingway Award. His second novel, Family Life , received the International Dublin Literary Award and the Folio Prize. His stories, collected in A Life of Adventure and Delight , have appeared in the New Yorker and in Best American Short Stories . He lives and teaches in Durham, North Carolina.

Akhil Sharma grew up in Delhi and in Edison, New Jersey. His first novel, An Obedient Father , won the 2001 PEN/Hemingway Award. His second novel, Family Life , received the International Dublin Literary Award and the Folio Prize. His stories, collected in A Life of Adventure and Delight , have appeared in the New Yorker and in Best American Short Stories . He lives and teaches in Durham, North Carolina. See less