Salil Tripathi

Salil Tripathi was born in Bombay and lives in New York. He is an award-winning journalist and writer who was a correspondent in Southeast Asia and has been a human rights researcher in Africa and Latin America. His latest book, The Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community, was long-listed for the Kamladevi Chattopadhyaya NIF prize for non-fiction and is short-listed for the History Literature Prize. His previous works include Offence: The Hindu Case and The Colonel Who Would Not Repent (which was long-listed for the Tata Literature Festival prize). He is the co-editor of For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit, a collection of writings from and about prison, with artist Shilpa Gupta. He is on the board of PEN International and chairs the Jury of the Disturbing the Peace Prize given by the Vaclav Havel Center in New York.