 HarperCollins, 2008 |
 Chatto & Windus, 2009 |
 Mahajan & Mahajan, 1984- |
Karan Mahajan was born in 1984 and grew up in New Delhi, India. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University in 2005 with majors in English and Economics. His first novel “Family Planning” is being published in ten countries.
A winner of the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, he has received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Camargo Foundation, the Ucross Foundation and the Corporation of Yaddo. His writing has appeared in The Believer, NPR’s All Things Considered, The Daily Beast, The San Francisco Chronicle, Granta, Bookforum, Tehelka, The New York Sun, and the anthology “Stumbling and Raging: More Politically Inspired Fiction.”
He currently lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn and is at work on his second novel. He is represented by Jin Auh at The Wylie Agency.
Selected Writing
My Guilty Pleasure: Kurt Cobain’s Journals, NPR’s All Things Considered
Stepwells and Civilization: A Travelogue, The Utopian
Peering Into Kashmir’s Turmoil: Profile of Basharat Peer, The Daily Beast
Review of American Taliban by Pearl Abraham, Bookforum
The Fourth Type of Writer, Tehelka Fiction Issue
Wonder Why, Granta
Review of Animal’s People by Indra Sinha, San Francisco Chronicle
Living With Music, New York Times Online
Review of All About H. Hatterr by GV Desani, The Believer
Review of The Great Partition by Yasmin Khan, New York Sun
Review of My Holocaust by Tova Reich, New York Sun