Karan Mahajan

Karan Mahajan

Infobox Writer
name = Karan Mahajan


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birthdate = Birth date and age|1984|04|24|df=yes
birthplace = Stamford, Connecticut
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occupation = Novelist, essayist
nationality = United States
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subject = Criticism, Fiction
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influences = V.S. Naipaul, Jonathan Franzen, Cynthia Ozick, R.K. Narayan
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Karan Mahajan (born April 24, 1984) is a Joseph Henry Jackson Award-winning Indian novelistFact|date=July 2008. Mahajan was born in Stamford, Connecticut, and grew up in New Delhi, IndiaFact|date=July 2008. He studied English and Economics at Stanford UniversityFact|date=July 2008. He currently lives in Fort Greene, BrooklynFact|date=July 2008. He has contributed writing to The Believer, The San Francisco Chronicle, Granta and The New York SunFact|date=July 2008. His first novel, "Family Planning", will be published by HarperCollins in November 2008.

Works

;Novels
*"Family Planning" ISBN 978-0061537257

;Anthologies
*"The Cremation Ground" in "Stumbling and Raging: More Politically Inspired Fiction" ISBN 978-1596921580

;Interviews and Essays
* [http://www.believermag.com/issues/200802/?read=interview_mehta "The Believer" Interview with Suketu Mehta]
* [http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Wonder-Why "Wonder Why" essay in Granta]


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