Karan Mahajan
Karan Mahajan is an Indian-American novelist, essayist, and critic. His second novel, The Association of Small Bombs, was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction. He has contributed writing to The Believer, The Daily Beast, the San Francisco Chronicle, Granta, and The New Yorker. In 2017, he was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists.
Biography
Mahajan was born in Stamford, Connecticut, and grew up in New Delhi, India. He studied English and Economics at Stanford University, before receiving an MFA in fiction from the Michener Center for Writers. In addition to his writing, he has worked as an editor in San Francisco, a consultant on economic and urban planning in New York City, and a researcher in Bangalore. He currently lives in Providence, [Rhode Island |Providence], Rhode Island, and teaches at Brown University.''Family Planning''
Mahajan's first novel, Family Planning, was described by the San Francisco Chronicle as "Brave, breakneck, and amusing"'; in The Seattle Times as "Pleasurably crazed"; and in the Washington Post as "Genuinely funny" and "Profound". Author Suketu Mehta described it as "The truest portrait of modern New Delhi I've read, and the funniest book of the year", and novelist Jay McInerney called it "one of the best and funniest first novels I've read in years."Family Planning was published by the Harper Perennial imprint of HarperCollins, and released in the US in 2008 and the UK in 2009, with translations forthcoming in India, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Brazil, and Korea.