Nikesh Shukla


Nikesh Shukla is a British author and screenwriter. His writing focuses on race, racism, identity, and immigration. He is the editor of the 2016 collection of essays The Good Immigrant, which features contributions from Riz Ahmed, Musa Okwonga, Bim Adewunmi, and Reni Eddo-Lodge, among others. With Chimène Suleyman, he co-edited the 2019 follow-up collection called The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect On America.

Early life and career

Shukla was born in the London suburb Harrow.

Career

Shukla is the author of three novels: Coconut Unlimited, Meatspace and The One Who Wrote Destiny.
Shukla is the author of two books for Young Adults: Run, Riot and The Boxer.
Shukla has been a columnist for The Observers magazine supplement and The Pool.
In January 2019, Shukla appeared in series 47 of the BBC Radio 4 show Great Lives, nominating Pakistani wrestler The Great Gama.
Shukla hosted a podcast called The Subaltern podcast, in which he has conversations with writers about writing. He also co-hosted a podcast called Meat Up, Hulk Out with sci-fi writer James Smythe.
In 2019 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was a Rathbones Folio Prize Mentor in 2019-2010.

Selected works and publications

Monographs