Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission and My Revolutions and the recipient of the Somerset Maugham Award, the Betty Trask Prize of the Society of Authors and a British Book Award. In 2003, Granta named him one of its twenty best young British novelists. He is deputy president of English PEN, a patron of the Refugee Council and a member of the editorial board of Mute magazine. His work has been translated into twenty-one languages and his short stories and journalism have appeared in diverse publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, Wired and The New Statesman.