Jeet Thayil (born 1959) is an Indian poet, novelist, librettist, and musician. He is the author of several poetry collections, including These Errors Are Correct (2008), which won the Sahitya Akademi Award. His first novel, Narcopolis, (2012), won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize and The Hindu Literary Prize.
Books in order of publication:
Poetry
Collected Poems, Aleph Book Company, New Delhi, 2015.
These Errors Are Correct, Tranquebar Books (EastWest and Westland), Delhi, 2008.
English, Penguin Books, New Delhi and Rattapallax Press, New York, 2004.
Apocalypso, Aark Arts, London, 1997
Gemini, Penguin-Viking, New Delhi, 1992. (two-poet volume)
Fiction
Narcopolis, Faber and Faber, London, 2012
The Book of Chocolate Saints, Aleph, 2017
Low, Faber and Faber, 2020
Names of the Women, Jonathan Cape, 2021
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