About

Nikesh Shukla is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter.

Nikesh wrote the 2023 Spider-Man India miniseries ‘Seva’ for Marvel, as well as numerous television projects. He won multiple awards for writing the short film Two Dosas starring Himesh Patel and has worked in multiple writer’s rooms including on projects for Apple TV, Amazon Prime, HBO and Sky. In 2024, he was a Sundance Institute Fellow on their prestigious screenwriting lab.

Nikesh recently released the first book in his kids’ series, The Council Of Good Friends. He is also the author of three YA novels, Run, Riot (shortlisted for a National Book Award), The Boxer (longlisted for the Carnegie Medal) and Stand Up. He is the author of Coconut Unlimited (shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award), Meatspace and the critically acclaimed The One Who Wrote Destiny.  Nikesh’s new book, Brown Baby: A Memoir Of Race, Family And Home was longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. He has also written a book on writing called Your Story Matters.

Nikesh is the co-founder of The Good Literary Agency. He was one of Time Magazine’s cultural leaders, Foreign Policy magazine's 100 Global Thinkers and The Bookseller's 100 most influential people in publishing in 2016 and in 2017. Nikesh is the editor of the bestselling essay collection, The Good Immigrant, which won the reader's choice at the Books Are My Bag Awards. He co-edited The Good Immigrant USA with Chimene Suleyman. He also teaches through Faber Academy.

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