Neel Mukherjee was the joint winner (with Amitav Ghosh) of the Vodafone-Crossword Award for Past Continuous (A Life Apart). He also won GQ (India) Writer of the year awards in 2009 and A Life Apart won the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Fiction. His most recent novel, The Lives of Others, was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize.
