Manu Joseph


Manu Joseph is an Indian journalist and writer. He is the former editor of Open magazine. His first debut novel Serious Men won The Hindu Literary Prize and the PEN Open Book Award and was later adapted as a film of the same name. His second novel, The [Illicit Happiness of Other People] was shortlisted for The Hindu Literary Prize in 2013.
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Life and career

Manu was born in Kottayam, Kerala, and grew up in Chennai. His father, Joseph Madappally, is a film-maker who directed the Malayalam film Thoranam. He is a graduate of Loyola College, Chennai, and dropped out of Madras Christian College to become a staff writer at Society magazine. He is a former editor of Open magazine, and a columnist for The International New York Times and The Hindustan Times. In 2007, he was a Chevening Scholar. He currently lives in Delhi.
His debut novel Serious Men won The Hindu Literary Prize and the PEN Open Book Award. It has been adapted by Sudhir Mishra as a feature film of the same name.
His second novel, The Illicit Happiness of Other People, was published in September 2012. He also wrote the screenplay for the film Love Khichdi.
In January 2014, Manu resigned as editor of Open magazine.
Manu is the creator and writer of Decoupled, an Indian English-language comedy web series, which was released on Netflix on 17 December 2021.

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