Sujit Saraf
Biography of Sujit Saraf :
Sujit Saraf has written three books -
Limbo (1994),
The Peacock Throne (2007) and
The Confession Of Sultana Daku (2009). His books deal with India that is shocking, entertaining and very comical. His works generally revolve around contemporary politics.
Sujit was born in Bihar and studied in IIT and University of California, Berkeley. Sujit works as an engineer for space missions at Lockheed Martin. Along with this he also runs Naatak, a theater company for Silicon Valley\'s large South Asian population.
Sujit Saraf comes from a successful merchant family. And so despite being a successful author he has been continuously employed for the last 15 years. He did not think of quitting his job. He began writing when he went to a boarding school in Kurseong, Darjeeling, which was a missionary run by Irish Catholic. The school encouraged him to read a lot. He kept writing then on but since he came from a merchant family, writing was never seriously considered as a profession.
His novels...
Limbo was written when Sujit was studying in IIT. Sujit Saraf has aid in an interview, “I don\'t remember exactly how it came about. In those days I was seriously involved in students\' politics and I remember suffering from setback in that election. It may sound trivial now but then I was in my fourth year in IIT and I was extremely unhappy about it. That left me with a lot of time in my hands.”
He further added, “I have written a large number of novels, between Limbo and The Peacock Throne, only two of them I finished. I actually did not write The Peacock Throne thinking that it would get published. I thought it was one of those unpublished books that I was writing, in the hope of, course, that some of them would get published.”
Sujit loves reading Peter Carey especially Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He said that he also enjoyed reading
In Custody by Anita Desai and a few
books by Vikram Seth. Saraf also enjoys a large number of Hindi books by
Premchand and
Rameshwar Dayal Saxena.