Manu Joseph is a journalist and writer and the current editor of OPEN magazine. He is also a columnist for The International New York Times.
His second novel, The Illicit Happiness of Other People, has been shortlisted for The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2013.The book is about a man named Ousep Chacko tries to understand why his teenage son Unni, a cartoonist, killed himself three years earlier. Joseph brings to this tragic premise his trademark gift for humorous observation, creating a multi-layered story about how the mind works, the difference between “madness” and “normalcy”, and the aspirations of young people in 1980s Madras.
Read an interview with the author >here .
His debut novel, Serious Men, was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and won the 2010 The Hindu Literary Prize.
Others on the shortlist include Anees Salim ( Vanity Bagh ), Manjul Bajaj ( Another Man's Wife and Other Stories ), Sonora Jha ( Foreign ) and Amandeep Sandhu ( Roll of Honour ).
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