Jeet Thayil is a poet, novelist, librettist and musician. He worked as a journalist in Mumbai,, Bangalore, Hong Kong and New York. The first instalment of his Bombay Trilogy, Narcopolis, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the DSC Prize. His book of poems These Errors are Correct won the Sahitya Akademi Award (India's National Academy of Letters). His musical collaborations include the opera Babur in London. His essays, poetry and short fiction have appeared in The New York Review of Books, Granta, TLS, Esquire, The Times, The Guardian and The Paris Review. His latest poetry collection I'll Have it Here, won the Sarojini Naidu Award and the Kalinga Literary Award. His new novel is The Elsewhereans.