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Manil Suri

Manil Suri

Author, The Death of Vishnu

Manil Suri was born in Bombay and is now a professor of mathematics and affiliate professor of Asian studies..

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Manil Suri was born in Bombay and is now a professor of mathematics and affiliate professor of Asian studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His first novel, The Death of Vishnu, won the 2002 Barnes and Noble Discover Prize and was a finalist for the 2002 Pen-Faulkner Award. His second novel, The Age of Shiva, was listed as one of the best 25 books of the decade by Contemporary Literature.

His third novel, The City of Devi, was released in 2013 and has already been listed as #12 in Flavorwire’s “50 Essential Works on LGBT Fiction.” He was named by Time Magazine as a “Person to Watch” in 2000 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction in 2004. His fiction has been translated into 27 foreign languages, and has appeared in The New Yorker.

In addition to his writing, Manil Suri is involved in several mathematics outreach projects. His research is in the area of finite element methods for partial differential equations.

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The Diverse Worlds We Inhabit

Capturing India

The Mathematics of Fiction

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Manil Suri on How to Build the Universe with Math | Closer To Truth Chats
The Big Bang of Numbers: Manil Suri in conversation with Maya Kanwal

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