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Hari Kunzru Biography

Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru (born 1969) is a British novelist and journalist. He is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions, Gods Without Men, and White Tears. His work has been translated into twenty languages.

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I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.

Good Day, Noble, Version, Writing

In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

Early, Fiction, Hold, Imagination, Part, Teens

There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.

Book, Clichés, Flower, Hands, Terrible

Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson. ' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.

Beautiful, Book, Books, Copy, Grandmother, Kept

Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.

Essex, Know, Mindset, Ownership, Suburbia

Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

Criticism, Lecture, Lectures, Wish, Work

I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

Leader, Like, Moral, Nuance, Understanding

I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.

Class, Global, Ideas, Place, Rejects

I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.

Complex, Idea, Ideas, Patterns, Simple

Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.

Ended, Evening, Extraordinary, Gone, Night, Party

There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

Chicklit, Fiction, Military, Thinking

There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.

Happens, Likes, New York, Place, Thing

I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.

Actually, Book, Fighting, Love, Take, Tortured

Several times in my life I've gone through long periods without sex or any other kind of physical contact. The hunger it produces is deep and low; it's possible to lose track of it, to forget or fail to perceive how it's emptied everything out of you and made the world papery and thin. Touch starved, you brush against existence like a stick against dry leaves. You become insubstantial yourself, a hungry ghost.

Hunger, Leaves, Long, Sex, Times, Track

I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

Culturally, Important, People, Substrate, Thinking

As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.

Art, Cultural, Discovery, Fashion, Hunting

I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.

Adult, Climbing, Scared, Suffering, Trying

When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.

Character, Fall, Thinking, Understand

In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these questions in a non-polemic, fictional way: you get to feel out territory rather than take positions. Through writing this, I can understand the impulse to faith, how people make meaning, how people make community, without having to say, do this, don’t do that, or I believe, I don’t believe.

Believe, Fashion, Fictional, Make, Say, Writing

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