Jeet Thayil’s fabulous trip into Bombay’s sprawling underworld, a perilous realm with an exotic cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters and eunuchs
Jeet Thayil
- Born
- Prizes judged
Jeet Thayil has published four collections of poetry and his novel Narcopolis was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2012
He was born in Kerala, India in 1959 and educated in Hong Kong, New York and Bombay. He is a songwriter and guitarist, He is the editor of The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (2008). He currently lives in New Delhi.