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Timeri n murari reading from the taliban cricket club
Timeri Murari is an Indian novelist, journalist, playwright and screenwriter. He is the author of fourteen published novels, including best-sellers The Taliban Cricket Club (2012) and Taj (2007), and has written extensively for Indian and international newspapers including The Guardian. He has also written the screenplay of the award-winning Hindi movie Daayraa (1997), which was voted one of the ten best films of 1997 by Time magazine. He adapted and directed it as a stage play, The Square Circle, at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre in November 1999, starring Parminder Nagra. His latest novel is called Chanakya Returns.
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- Timeri n murari reading from the taliban cricket club
- Timeri n murari in conversation with parvathi nayar
- Early years
- Novels
- Non fiction
- References
Timeri n murari in conversation with parvathi nayar
Early years
Murari was born in Madras, India and studied at Bishop Cottons School, Bangalore. He left India for the UK when he was 18 years old to study electronic engineering. He later switched majors to History and Political Science at the McGill University, Montreal. While at university, he began writing for The Guardian and other international newspapers.
His first job was a reporter on the Kingston Whig Standard, in Kingston, Ontario. Murari moved to London, UK, and worked and wrote for The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Observer and other newspapers and magazines before once again shifting base to New York. In the US, Murari wrote film documentaries and contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan among others. He returned to his native Chennai in 1988 and has been living there since.
Novels
Murari's first novel, The Marriage, was published in the UK and India. Since then, he has written 18 books, which have been translated into several languages. Fourteen are works of fiction, including the best sellers Taj, which has been translated into 25 languages, and The Taliban Cricket Club. Two of his novels - Field of Honour and Four Steps from Paradise - are semi-biographical.He has also written a book for children, Children of the Enchanted Jungle. Aleph has published his latest novel, Chanakya Returns (Indian title) in July 2014. His latest work is a Young Adult novel, Axxiss and the Magic Medallions. It is Book one of the Axxiss trilogy. Book Two of the trilogy, The Undersea Kingdom, published October 2016.
Non-fiction
Murari has written four non-fiction books. Two of these are memoirs -- My Temporary Son and Limping to the Centre of the World.