About Manil Suri

Manil Suri is the author, most recently, of the memoir, A Room in Bombay (pub date Apr 21, 2026). He was born in Mumbai in 1959 and is a distinguished university professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of three internationally acclaimed novels, The Death of Vishnu, The Age of Shiva, and The City of Devi. His fiction has been translated into twenty-seven languages, longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award, LA Times Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award, and has won the McKittrick Prize and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, among others. He is also the author of The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math, which was a finalist for the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. He is a former contributing opinion writer at the New York Times, for which he has written several widely read pieces on India, mathematics, and LGBTQ+ issues. He lives with his husband in Silver Spring, Maryland.