Manil Suri Biography

Born in 1959, in what was then Bombay, India (now  Mumbai), Manil Suri came to the United States as a student at Carnegie Mellon University in 1979, where he received a Ph.D in mathematics.

He became a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 1983. (His mathematical research is in the numerical analysis of partial differential equations.) He continues to advance through the academic ranks at the University as his star rises in the world of literature.

Suri began writing short stories in the 1980’s, but was not published (aside from a short story in an obscure Bulgarian language journal) until “The Seven Circles” appeared in The New Yorker magazine.” The Seven Circles” was an excerpt from his first novel, The Death of Vishnu, which was published in 2001 by W.W. Norton, instantly becoming an international best-seller.

The Age of Shiva was published in February of 2008, and The Search for Brahma will follow as the final book in the trilogy.

The Death of Vishnu was a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award.