Akhil Sharma

Quick Facts

Full Name	Akhil Sharma
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Jul 22, 1971(1971-07-22)
Age	53
Birthplace	Delhi
Country	India
Horoscope	Leo

Akhil Sharma Biography

Akhil Sharma is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on July 22, 1971 in Delhi, India. Akhil Sharma (born July 22, 1971) is an Indian-American author and professor of creative writing. His first published novel An Obedient Father won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. His second, Family Life, won the 2015 Folio Prize and 2016 International Dublin Literary Award.

In July, 2017, Norton published Sharma’s collection of short stories, A Life of Adventure and Delight.

Sharma’s first novel was An Obedient Father for which he won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Sharma’s second novel, Family Life was published by W. W. Norton & Company in the U.S. and Faber and Faber in the U.K. in April 2014. The New York Times described the semi-autobiographical novel as “deeply unnerving and gorgeously tender at its core.”. David Sedaris noted that “[e]very page is alive and surprising, proof of [Sharma’s] huge, unique talent.” Sharma wrote about the 13 years it took to write Family Life in an essay on The New Yorker’s website. Family Life won the 2015 Folio Prize for fiction and the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award.

Akhil Sharma Net Worth

Akhil Sharma is one of the richest Novelist from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Akhil Sharma 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born in Delhi, India, he immigrated to the United States when he was eight, and grew up in Edison, New Jersey, where he graduated from J.P. Stevens High School. Sharma described experiencing racism in school and in the city: “people cursing at us in the street, and being spat at at school.” Sharma’s teenage brother was in a pool accident, that left him in a thirty-year coma, an incident that forms the basis of Sharma’s semi-autobiographical novel, Family Life. 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 two O. Henry Awards (1995 and 1997). He then attempted to become a screenwriter, but, disappointed with his fortunes, left to attend Harvard Law School.

Sharma has 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 a 2003 film of the same name, which has appeared on the PBS series Independent Lens.

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Gary Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Akhil Sharma celebrates birthday on July 22 of every year.