{"id":13469,"date":"2016-06-10T15:38:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T15:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/?p=13469"},"modified":"2016-07-26T20:26:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T20:26:59","slug":"indian-american-author-akhil-sharma-autobiography-family-life-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/indian-american-author-akhil-sharma-autobiography-family-life-story\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Author Akhil Sharma Wins International Dublin Literary Award for His Autobiography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Indian American professor Akhil Sharma\u2019s autobiography \u2018Family Life\u2019 has fetched him the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award worth Euros 100,000.<\/strong> The autobiographical novel is a heart-touching story of Akhil Sharma\u2019s immigration from India to America in the late 1970s when he was only eight years old, with focus on how his family faced a tragedy and survived its trauma.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The story of Family Life by Akhil Sharma is dated to 1978 when Mr Mishra (the character representing his father) sent flight tickets to his wife in Delhi after having settled as a government clerk in <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/cheap-flights-from-new-york-jfk-to-india-in\/\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a><\/span>.<\/strong> As the youngest son (Akhil Sharma himself) publicized it in the neighborhood, Mrs Mishra (his mother) was pricked with jealously by her neighbors. Finally, Mrs Mishra along with two sons joined Mr Mishra in New York, without knowing that a tragedy was impending behind bubble-like glamor of the American Dream.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Brought up in Edison in the state of New Jersey, Akhil Sharma is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University.<\/strong> His first novel \u2018An Obedient Father\u2019 won the Hemingway Award for debut fiction. It was also the Notable Book of the Year on New York Times\u2019 list of bestsellers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/New-Jersey-English-Professor-Akhil-Sharma-autobiography-Family-Life.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13474 size-full\" title=\"New Jersey Author Akhil Sharma Wins International Dublin Literary Award for His Autobiography 'Family Life'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/New-Jersey-English-Professor-Akhil-Sharma-autobiography-Family-Life.jpg\" alt=\"Akhl Sharma autobiography, Indian American authors, American dream stories, New Jersey news\" width=\"686\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Akhil Sharma\u2019s autobiography \u2018Family Life\u2019 also won the prestigious Folio Prize sponsored by the Folio Society, a leading London-based publisher.<strong> He took 13 years to write \u2018Family Life\u2019 which the New York Times described as \u2018deeply unnerving and gorgeously tender at its core.\u2019<\/strong> The Jacksonville library in the US called the autobiographical novel \u2018beautifully hypnotic\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Jacksonville library in the US and the India International Centre Library in New Delhi put \u2018Family Life\u2019 forward for the International Dublin Literary Award 2016. <strong>It was one of the 160 titles nominated for the Prize from 118 cities across 43 countries. And the award went to Akhil Sharma\u2019s Family Life from the shortlist of 10 titles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indian American writer Akhil Sharma is a known face in the print media of the United States. <strong>Some of his short stories, including \u2018Mother and Son\u2019 and \u2018Cosmopolitan\u2019 made the way to the Best American Short Stories anthology and the anthology of O. Henry Award Winners.<\/strong> Leading publications such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly and The Quarterly have published his stories and articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>On being asked what he would do with the prize money \u20ac100,000 during an interview with the Guardian, Akhil said,<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019d like to start a scholarship in India in my brother\u2019s name, to help young women go to school. I would have done that anyway, without this prize, but it makes it easier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/19-hindu-festivals-on-new-jersey-school-holiday-list\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey<\/a><\/span> based Akhil Sharma is the third American to have won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Also Check<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/19-hindu-festivals-on-new-jersey-school-holiday-list\/\" class=\"ss-button default\"><strong>New Jersey Schools Add 19 Indian Festivals to Holiday List<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian American professor Akhil Sharma\u2019s autobiography \u2018Family Life\u2019 has fetched him the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award worth Euros 100,000. 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