Raj Kamal Jha

Raj Kamal Jha

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Raj Kamal Jha Biography

Raj Kamal Jha is a daily newspaper editor and an internationally acclaimed novelist. His published works include - The Blue Bedspread, If You Are Afraid of Heights, Zwischen den Welten and Fireproof. He was an Assistant Editor (News) at The Statesman in Kolkata (1992 – 1994), a Senior Associate Editor at India Today, New Delhi (1994-1996), and since 1996 has been with The Indian Express, serving in different posts such as Deputy Editor, Executive Editor, Managing Editor and now as Editor. As a novelist, He has also been shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. His novels have been translated to many European languages like French, Dutch, Greek, German, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Turkish, and Finnish.

 

Jha was born in Bhagalpur, Bihar. His childhood days were completed at Kolkata where he completed his schooling and later received Bachelor's in Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. But while studying at college, he acted as editor of campus magazine – Alankar. After graduation at Indian Institute of Technology in 1988, he joined Graduate School of Journalism at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, where he received his M.A. in 1990. He returned back to India.

 

In 1992, he started his carrier as a journalist. He worked under different leading newspapers of the country. His contributions helped The Indian Express to win thrice the Vienna-based International Press Institute's award for Excellence in Journalism. Jha's first novel, The Blue Bedspread won the 2000 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Eurasia region). His second novel, If You Are Afraid of Heights was a finalist for the Hutch-Crossword Book Award in 2003. His third novel, Fireproof, debut in German at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2006. His fiction works are popular for its simplicity and ability to evoke emotion through attention to detail.

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Updated: January 17, 2014

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