Manil Suri was born in Bombay and is a professor of mathematics and affiliate professor of Asian studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His first novel, The Death of Vishnu, won the 2002 Barnes and Noble Discover Prize and was a finalist for the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award. His second novel, The Age of Shiva, was released in 2008 in the US, UK, and India. His latest work is The City of Devi. He was named a Person to Watch in 2000 by Time magazine.

Additional awards and recognitions include the Ralph Heyne Corrine Prize from Germany, the McKittrick Award from the UK, a PEN/Bingham fellowship, and a Guggenheim fellowship.

In addition to his writing, Manil Suri is involved in several mathematics outreach projects. His research is in the area of finite element methods for partial differential equations.

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