Hari Kunzru is the author of The Impressionist, Transmission, and the short story collection Noise. He was named one of Granta¿s ¿Twenty Best Fiction Writers Under Forty.¿ The Impressionist was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist; was shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and a British Book Award; and was one of Publishers Weekly¿s Best Novels of 2002. Kunzru is a contributing editor of Mute magazine and sits on the executive council of English PEN .
