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Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru (born 1969) is a British novelist and journalist, author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission and My Revolutions. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created Of mixed English and Kashmiri Pandit ancestry, he grew up in Essex. Original Kashmiri Pandit ( Hindi: hi कश्मीरी पण्डित refers to a person who belongs to a sect of Hindu Pandits who originate Essex is a county in the East of England. The County town is Chelmsford, and the highest point of the county is Chrishall Common He was educated at Bancroft's School, Essex. Bancroft's School is a co-educational independent school in Woodford Green, London, with around 950 pupils aged between 7 and 18 He studied English at Wadham College, Oxford University, then gained an MA in Philosophy and Literature from Warwick University. The term English literature refers to Literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by Writers not necessarily from Wadham College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, located at the southern end of Parks Road The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language Literature is the Art of written works Literally translated the word means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter The University of Warwick is a British Campus university located on the outskirts of Coventry, West Midlands, England and is His work has been translated into twenty languages. He lives in East London.

From 1995 to 1997 he worked on Wired UK. Wired is a full-color monthly American Magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993 He has worked as a travel journalist since 1998, writing for such newspapers as The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph, was travel correspondent for Time Out magazine, and worked as a TV presenter interviewing artists for the Sky TV electronic arts programme "The Lounge". Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. For "The Daily Telegraph" in Australia see The Daily Telegraph (Australia. Time Out is a Publishing company based in London, England. The company's best known product is the Time Out weekly listings Magazine British Sky Broadcasting ( BSkyB — Sky Television and BSB) is a company that operates Sky Digital, a subscription television service in the In 1999 he was named The Observer Young Travel Writer of the Year. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) From 1999-2004 he was also music editor of Wallpaper* magazine and since 1995 he has been a contributing editor to Mute, the culture and technology magazine. Wallpaper* is a Time Inc Magazine focusing on Travel, Design, Entertainment, Fashion Mute magazine, founded in the UK in 1994 by artists Simon Worthington and Pauline van Mourik Broekman, started as a platform for critical He won a Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Award for The Impressionist. The Betty Trask Award for a first novel given by the Society of Authors to citizens of the Commonwealth under the age of 35 The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each May by the Society of Authors. Transmission, his second novel, was published in the summer of 2004 and was named one of the New York Times's notable books of the year. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " In 2005 he published the short story collection "Noise" and in August 2007 Penguin Hamish Hamilton published My Revolutions. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

In 2003, Hari Kunzru was named by Granta magazine as one of twenty "Best of Young British Novelists". Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Granta is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom. In 2005, Lire magazine named him one of the world's "50 écrivains pour demain". Lire (literally to read) is a French Literary magazine covering both French and foreign literature Although he was also awarded The John Llewellyn Rhys prize for writers under 35, the second oldest literary prize in the UK, he turned it down on the grounds that it was backed by the Mail on Sunday whose "hostility towards black and Asian people" he felt was unacceptable. The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize is a British based Literary prize. The Mail on Sunday is a British newspaper currently published in a tabloid format In a statement read out on his behalf, he stated "As the child of an immigrant, I am only too aware of the poisonous effect of the Mail's editorial line. . . . The atmosphere of prejudice it fosters translates into violence, and I have no wish to profit from it. " He further went on to recommend that the award money be donated to the charity Refugee Council (UK). The Refugee Council is the United Kingdom 's largest organisation working with Refugees and Asylum seekers. He is Deputy President of English PEN. For the "Postsecondary Education Network International" see PEN-International International PEN, the worldwide association of

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