Hari Kunzru
|
|
Hari Kunzru is the British author of mixed English and Kashmiri Hindu ancestry of The Impressionist and Transmission. He was born in 1969, and grew up in Essex. He studied English at Oxford University, then gained an MA in Philosophy and Literature from Warwick University. He has worked as a travel journalist since 1998, writing for such newspapers as The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph, and was travel correspondent for Time Out magazine. In 1999 he was named The Observer Young Travel Writer of the Year. From 1999-2004 he was also music editor of Wallpaper* magazine and since 1995 he has been a contributing editor to Mute, the culture and technology magazine. He won the Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Award for The Impressionist. Transmission is his latest book, published in the summer of 2004. In 2003, [Hari Kunzru][1] (http://www.harikunzru.com) was named by Granta magazine as one of twenty 'Best of Young British Novelists'.