To read my other writings check
out my blog http://timmurari.blogspot.com
My first job was a reporter on the
Kingston Whig Standard, in Kingston, Ontario, but
I was fired because of my colour when a new editor
took over. He was frank. He said my presence in the
newsroom disturbed him. I went to London and worked
and wrote for The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Observer
and other newspapers and magazines before moving to
New York. In the States I wrote film documentaries
and contributed to The New York Times, The Washington
Post, Cosmopolitain.
Currently, I’m working a new
novel set in Afghanistan in 2000 when the Taliban
ruled the country. The narrator is a young woman who
finds her life in great danger, and has to escape
the obsessive love of a Taliban leader.
I’ve completed Book One of
my sweeping adventure trilogy in which a magical black
dog and six teenage children have to seek the help
of Isaac Newton, Einstein, Alexander the Great, among
others, and enter a parallel universe, to find the
key that will send the evil Gondwana kingdom, released
from the deep by a massive earthquake, back down to
the bottom.
My first novel, The Marriage,
was published in the UK and India. Since then, I’ve
written 17 books which have been translated into several
languages. Thirteen are works of fiction, including
the best sellerTAJ that
was translated into 19 languages which Penguin India
re-issued. THE SMALL HOUSE,
a novel, was published in 2007. In April 2008, Penguin
published my new non-fiction work LIMPING
TO THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD, A journey to Mount Kailas.
This is about the hardest pilgrimage in the world
to the sacred mountain in a remote corner of Tibet.
Penguin India has reissued THE
LAST VICTORY. This is the sequel to the IMPERIAL
AGENT, reissued last year. The complex adventure
story of Kimbal O’Hara takes you through Indian
history from 1900 to 1917.
Last year Scholastic published my
new work of fiction, a young adult novel, CHILDREN
OF THE ENCHANTED JUNGLE. A story of orphaned
children living in the jungle who join forces with
all animals, birds and reptiles to protect their home
from destruction.
I wrote and produced the
Award winning film THE
SQUARE CIRCLE. It was
shown in many film festivals, including London, Toronto,
Melbourne and Oslo. TIME magazine voted it ‘one
of the ten best films of the year’. And quote:
“The coming of age of the young woman is limned
with wit and affection. Hats off to screenwriter Timeri
Murari.” Unquote It opened in London at the
Curzon, Shaftsbury Avenue. All the broadsheets gave
it very good reviews.
In 1999, I adapted and directed it as a stage play
for the Leicester Haymarket
Theatre, an exciting
experience. Parminder
K. Nagra of ‘Bend
it Like Beckham’ fame played the main lead.
In 2002, I was given the ‘R.K. Narayan Award’
for my novels and for my work in cinema and theatre.
