| 词条 | Jeet Thayil |
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| name = Jeet Thayil | image = Jeet Thayil performing at Goobe's Book Republic, Bangalore.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1959|10|13}} | birth_place = Kerala, India | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Author, poet | language = English | alma_mater = | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = Narcopolis (Faber & Faber, 2012) | influences = | influenced = | awards = Sahitya Akademi Award | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | portaldisp = }}Jeet Thayil (born 13 October 1959) is an Indian poet,[1] novelist,[2] librettist and musician. He is best known as a poet and is the author of four collections: These Errors Are Correct (Tranquebar, 2008), English (2004, Penguin India, Rattapallax Press, New York, 2004), Apocalypso (Ark, 1997) and Gemini (Viking Penguin, 1992). His first novel, Narcopolis, (Faber & Faber, 2012), which won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature,[3] was also shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize[4] and the Hindu Literary Prize.[5][3] Early life and careerBorn in Kerala, Thayil is the son of the author and editor TJS George, who at various times in his life was posted in several places in India, in Hong Kong and New York. Thayil was mostly educated abroad. He received a Masters in Fine Arts from Sarah Lawrence College (New York), and is the recipient of grants and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Swiss Arts Council, the British Council and the Rockefeller Foundation. His first novel, Narcopolis (Faber, 2011) is set mostly in Bombay in the 70s and 80s, and sets out to tell the city's secret history, when opium gave way to new cheap heroin. Thayil has said he wrote the novel, "to create a kind of memorial, to inscribe certain names in stone. As one of the characters [in Narcopolis] says, it is only by repeating the names of the dead that we honour them. I wanted to honour the people I knew in the opium dens, the marginalised, the addicted and deranged, people who are routinely called the lowest of the low; and I wanted to make some record of a world that no longer exists, except within the pages of a book."[7] He is the editor of the Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (Bloodaxe, UK, 2008), 60 Indian Poets (Penguin India, 2008) and a collection of essays, Divided Time: India and the End of Diaspora (Routledge, 2006). Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry [4]( United States, 2015 ). He is the author of the libretto for the opera Babur in London, commissioned by the UK-based Opera Group with music by the Zürich-based British composer Edward Rushton.[5] The world premiere of Babur takes place in Switzerland in 2012, followed by tours to the United Kingdom (where it shows at theatres in London and Oxford) and India. At the work's core is an exploration about the complexities of faith and multiculturalism in modern-day Britain. Its action hinges on an imagined encounter between a group of religious fundamentalists and the ghost of Babur, who challenges their plans for a suicide strike.[5] Thayil is also known as a performance poet and musician. As a songwriter and guitarist, he is one half of the contemporary music project Sridhar/Thayil (Mumbai, New Delhi).[6] Thayil was also a guitarist for the psychedelic rock band Atomic Forest in the early 1980s for a brief period. In 2006 he told the Indian newspaper, The Hindu, that he had been an alcoholic (like many of the Bombay poets) and an addict for almost two decades: "I spent most of that time sitting in bars, getting very drunk, talking about writers and writing. And never writing. It was a colossal waste. I feel very fortunate that I got a second chance." These days, he says, the only addictions he has are poetry and coffee. "Coffee's much easier to get than heroin."[7] He has worked as a journalist in New York, Mumbai and Bangalore. Awards and honoursIn 2012, Thayil's poetry collection These Errors are Correct was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for English.[8] He was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2012 and The Hindu Literary Prize (2013) for his debut novel Narcopolis.[9][10] In 2013, Jeet Thayil became the first Indian author to win the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, worth $50,000, for the novel Narcopolis.[11] StyleThe Indian poet, Dom Moraes, in his introduction to Thayil's first book of poems (with poet Vijay Nambisan), Gemini, said that Thayil did not trouble his mind with the concerns of many Indian poets, their Indianness, that he did not make statements that were irrelevant to his work, that his concerns were mainly personal. Thayil, Moraes said, "works his feelings out with care, through colourations of mood rather than through explicit statements."[12][13] His idiom is the result of a cosmopolitan blend of styles, and is yet, quite clearly, his own. About Narcopolis, Thayil said, "I've always been suspicious of the novel that paints India in soft focus, a place of loved children and loving elders, of monsoons and mangoes and spices. To equal Bombay as a subject you would have to go much further than the merely nostalgic will allow. The grotesque may be a more accurate means of carrying out such an enterprise."[14] BibliographyPoetry
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References1. ^{{cite web|title=Sahitya Akademi : Who's Who of Indian Wiriters|url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/SASearchSystem/sauser/writerinfo.jsp?wrids=2832|website=Sahitya Akademi|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|accessdate=27 October 2015}} 2. ^{{cite web|title=Interview with Poet/Novelist Jeet Thayil|url=https://kathmandutribune.com/interview-with-poetnovelist-jeet-thayil/|website=Kathmandu Tribune|accessdate=3 September 2017}} 3. ^https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/jeet-thayil 4. ^{{cite web|title=Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry|url=http://bigbridge.org/BB17/poetry/indianpoetryanthology/Jeet_Thayil.html|publisher=BigBridge.Org|accessdate=9 June 2016}} 5. ^1 {{cite web|title=Babur in London |url=http://www.theoperagroup.co.uk/?p=1237 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120412014029/http://www.theoperagroup.co.uk/?p=1237 |dead-url=yes |archive-date=12 April 2012 |publisher=The Opera Group |accessdate=27 January 2012 }} 6. ^{{cite news|last=Majumdar|first=Anushree|title=Note Worthy|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/noteworthy/334364/0|accessdate=27 January 2012|newspaper=Indian Express|date=13 July 2008}} 7. ^{{cite news|last=Roy|first=Nilanjana|title=Finding the words again|url=http://www.hindu.com/lr/2006/06/04/stories/2006060400020100.htm|accessdate=27 January 2012|newspaper=The Hindu|date=4 June 2006}} 8. ^{{cite news|title=Jeet Thayil among 24 selected for Sahitya Akademi Awards|url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/books/jeet-thayil-among-24-selected-for-sahitya-akademi-awards/article4222947.ece|publisher=The Hindu|date=21 December 2012}} 9. ^1 {{cite news| url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/books/article3683632.ece|title=Jeet Thayil on Man Booker Prize short-list|work=The Hindu |date=10 September 2012}} 10. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.thehindu.com/books/the-hindu-literary-prize-goes-to-jerry-pinto/article4425328.ece |title=The Hindu Literary Prize goes to Jerry Pinto |work=The Hindu |author=Staff writer |date=17 February 2013 |accessdate=18 February 2013}} 11. ^1 {{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jan/25/jeet-thayil-south-asian-literature-prize |title=Jeet Thayil becomes first Indian winner of South Asian literature prize |work=The Guardian |author=Richard Lea |date=25 January 2013 |accessdate=26 January 2013}} 12. ^{{cite book|title=Gemini|year=1992|publisher=Viking|isbn=0-670-84524-8|author=Jeet Thayil|author2=Vijay Nambisan}} 13. ^{{cite news|last=Brownjohn|first=Alan|title=Dom Moraes|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jun/04/guardianobituaries.india|accessdate=27 January 2012|newspaper=Guardian|date=3 June 2004}} 14. ^1 {{cite news|last=Ratnam|first=Dhamini|title=The history of Mumbai no one told you|url=http://www.mid-day.com/lifestyle/2012/jan/150112-The-history-of-Mumbai-no-one-told-you.htm|accessdate=27 January 2012|newspaper=Mid-Day|date=15 January 2012}} External links
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