Literary Birthday – 22 July – Akhil Sharma

Happy Birthday, Akhil Sharma, born on 22 July 1971.

Akhil Sharma Quotes

1. I don’t really revise. I tend to rewrite.
2. Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn’t. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.
3. Vanishing into books, I felt held.
4. It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader.
5. Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

Akhil Sharma is an Indian-American author. His first novel An Obedient Father won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. His second, Family Life, won the Folio Prize and International Dublin Literary Award. Sharma went on to become an assistant professor in the creative writing MFA program at Rutgers University-Newark.

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by Amanda Patterson
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