Whiting Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 13 (1997) Winner
Suketu Mehta
スケトゥ・メータ
Suketu Mehta
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- Kolkata, India
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Gujarati
- Residence History
- Mumbai (Bombay) — raised → New York City — residence and base
Career
- Occupations
- Author, Journalist, Professor, Screenwriter
- Active Years
- 1990-
- Affiliations
- New York University (Associate Professor of Journalism)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York University | — | — | — | — | United States |
| University of Iowa Writers' Workshop | — | — | MFA | — | United States |
New York University
Country:
United States
Details of degree/years not specified
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop
Degree:
MFA
Country:
United States
Graduate writing program (MFA)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Whiting Award | — | — | Whiting Foundation | 受賞 |
| 1997 | O. Henry Prize | Short story "Gare du Nord" | — | O. Henry Prize | 受賞 |
| — | New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship | — | — | New York Foundation for the Arts | 受賞 |
| 2007 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2005 | Kiriyama Prize | Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found | — | Kiriyama Prize | 受賞 |
| 2005 | Pulitzer Prize (finalist) | Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found | — | Pulitzer Prize | ノミネート（ファイナリスト） |
| — | Hutch Crossword Award | Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found | — | Hutch Crossword | 受賞 |
Whiting Award
1997
Organization:
Whiting Foundation
Result:
受賞
O. Henry Prize
1997
Work:
Short story "Gare du Nord"
Organization:
O. Henry Prize
Result:
受賞
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
Organization:
New York Foundation for the Arts
Result:
受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
2007
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
受賞
Kiriyama Prize
2005
Work:
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Organization:
Kiriyama Prize
Result:
受賞
Pulitzer Prize (finalist)
2005
Work:
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Organization:
Pulitzer Prize
Result:
ノミネート（ファイナリスト）
Hutch Crossword Award
Work:
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Organization:
Hutch Crossword
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Kiriyama Prize
1 appearances
Asian American Literary Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 8 (2005) Winner
Works
Major Works
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
2004 Non-fiction / Narrative non-fiction 416 pagesAn account based on Mehta's experiences and two and a half years of reporting in Mumbai, exploring the city's underbelly, inequality, crime, and cultural complexity through multiple perspectives to portray the dynamics and contradictions of contemporary Mumbai.
Urban lifeMigrationEconomic inequalityViolenceCultural diversity
This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto
2019 Non-fiction / Political essayA polemical defense of immigrants' rights arguing that colonialism, climate change, and corporate greed have forced migration and that the right to migrate is an overdue form of reparation.
ImmigrationHuman rightsGlobalizationPolitical philosophy
Bibliography
- Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (2004)
- This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto (2019)
- Numerous essays and short stories in magazines
Adaptations
- Film screenplays (e.g. Mission Kashmir; segment in New York, I Love You)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Narrative non-fictionField-research-based reportageMulti-perspective character-driven narration
- Recurring Motifs
- Vitality and contradictions of the cityMovement and bordersDynamics of class and power
Legacy
An internationally recognized journalist and author best known for Maximum City, known for deep insights into urban life and clear-sighted commentary on immigration, influencing both academic and general readers.
In Popular Culture
- Maximum City is frequently cited in urban studies and journalism contexts.
Quotes
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The West has forced people to become migrants. The right to migrate is overdue reparation for those centuries of degradation and exploitation.
Source: The Washington Post (op-ed), 2019 (2019)
Trivia
- Born in Kolkata, raised in Mumbai; moved to New York with his family in 1977.
- Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University.
- Maximum City (2004) won the Kiriyama Prize and was a 2005 Pulitzer finalist.
- Won the Whiting Award and an O. Henry Prize in 1997.