{"id":50665,"date":"2019-10-14T12:03:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T06:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/?p=50665"},"modified":"2019-10-14T14:56:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T09:26:30","slug":"jeet-thayil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/jeet-thayil\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeet Thayil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-50730 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/jeet-600x314.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/jeet-600x314.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/jeet-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/jeet-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/jeet.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jeet Thayil is an Indian poet, novelist, librettist and musician. Jeet Thayil was educated in Hong Kong, New York and Bombay. He is a performance poet and songwriter with four published collections of poetry: Gemini ,Apocalypso ; English\u00a0 and These Errors Are Correct .<\/p>\n<p>He is also the editor of Divided Time: India and the End of Diaspora, a book of essays; the Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets ; and 60 Indian Poets.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, he wrote the libretto for the opera, Babur in London, in collaboration with the composer Edward Rushton.<\/p>\n<p>His first novel, Narcopolis, set in Bombay in the 1970s and &#8217;80s won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Poet, Novelist and Musician<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[581],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}