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Akhil Sharma

AKHIL SHARMA  (1971 - )

 Nationality:    Indian-USA
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Akhil Sharma (born July 22, 1971) is an Indian-American author. Born in Delhi, India, he immigrated to the United States when he was eight, and grew up in Edison, New Jersey. Sharma studied at Princeton University, where he earned his B.A. in public policy at the Woodrow Wilson School. While there, he also studied under a succession of notable writers, including Russell Banks, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Auster, John McPhee, and Tony Kushner. He then won a Stegner Fellowship to the writing program at Stanford, where he won several O. Henry Prizes. He then attempted to become a screenwriter, but, disappointed with his fortunes, left to attend Harvard Law School. Sharma is the author of one novel, An Obedient Father, for which he won the 2001 PEN/Hemingway Award and the 2001 Whiting Writers' Award. He has also published stories in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Quarterly, Fiction, the Best American Short Stories anthology, and the O. Henry Award Winners anthology. His short story "Cosmopolitan" was anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1998, and was also made into an acclaimed 2003 film of the same name, which has appeared on the PBS series Independent Lens. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhil_Sharma

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 Hyms For The Drowning         Let Us Go Then

Hyms For The Drowning

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Playwrights Theatre, New Jersey    1997

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Let Us Go Then

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examines the grief of an Indian family whose American-born daughter commits suicide

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in Rowing to America: The Immigrant Project, Dramatic Publishing   -

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one act drama

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