Narcopolis (2012) Collected Poems (2015) Jeet Thayil (born 1959) is an Indian poet,[1] novelist, librettist and musician.

He is the author of several poetry collections, including These Errors Are Correct (2008), which won the Sahitya Akademi Award.

[2] His father is writer and editor Thayil Jacob Sony George, and the family moved with his work.

[18] Thayil is the editor of the Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (Bloodaxe, UK, 2008), 60 Indian Poets (Penguin India, 2008) and a collection of essays, Divided Time: India and the End of Diaspora (Routledge, 2006).

[20] The world premiere of Babur took place in Switzerland in 2012, followed by tours to the United Kingdom (performed at theatres in London and Oxford) and India.

Its action hinges on an imagined encounter between a group of religious fundamentalists and the ghost of Babur, who challenges their plans for a suicide strike.

[4][5] In 2013, Thayil became the first Indian author to win the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, worth $50,000, for the novel Narcopolis.