Rahul Mehta
{{short description|American author}}
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| birth_place = West Virginia, U.S.
| occupation = Novelist
| nationality = American
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Rahul Mehta is an American author. They were born and raised in West Virginia, and their work focuses on the experience of being queer and South Asian. Mehta is the winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Debut Gay Fiction and the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction for their short story collection Quarantine (2011).{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambdaliterary.org/interviews/04/16/rahul-mehta-on-pushing-through-writers-block-memory-and-exploring-pain-through-fiction/|title=Rahul Mehta on Pushing Through Writer's Block and Exploring Pain...|last=Centrone|first=Brian|date=2017-04-16|website=Lambda Literary|access-date=2019-06-11}}{{Cite web|url=https://aaww.org/unquarantined-rahul-mehta/|title=Unquarantined|date=2013-10-02|website=Asian American Writers' Workshop|language=en|access-date=2019-06-11}} They teach Creative Writing at the University of the Arts.{{Cite web|url=https://www.uarts.edu/node/21546|title=Rahul {{!}} University of the Arts|website=www.uarts.edu|access-date=2019-06-11}}
Bibliography
- No Other World: A Novel, Harper, 2017{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/05/18/no-other-world-by-rahul-mehta/|title='No Other World' by Rahul Mehta|last=Singh|first=Rajat|date=2017-05-18|website=Lambda Literary|access-date=2019-06-11}}
- Quarantine: Stories, HarperPerrenial, 2011{{Cite web|url=https://iowareview.org/blog/rahul-mehtas-quarantine|title=Rahul Mehta's QUARANTINE {{!}} The Iowa Review|website=iowareview.org|access-date=2019-06-11}}
Recognition
Mehta's work has been reviewed in many publications, including the Iowa Review,{{Cite web|url=https://iowareview.org/blog/rahul-mehtas-quarantine|title=Rahul Mehta's QUARANTINE {{!}} The Iowa Review|website=iowareview.org|access-date=2019-06-11}} Fiction Writers Review,{{Cite web|url=https://fictionwritersreview.com/review/reviewlet-quarantine-by-rahul-mehta/|title=[Reviewlet] Quarantine, by Rahul Mehta|last=Hsu|first=V. Jo|website=Fiction Writers Review|access-date=2019-06-11}} Lambda Literary Review,{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/08/08/quarantine-by-rahul-mehta/|title='Quarantine' by Rahul Mehta|last=Rutman|first=Troy|date=2011-08-08|website=Lambda Literary|access-date=2019-06-11}} Time Out,{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/usa/things-to-do/lgbt-books-to-read|title=10 LGBT books to read this summer|website=Time Out United States|date=6 June 2017 |language=en|access-date=2019-06-11}} and Booklist.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bookclubcentral.org/2017/11/20/booklists-top-10-first-novels-2017/|title=Booklist's Top 10 First Novels: 2017|date=2017-11-20|website=ALA Book Club Central|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-11|archive-date=2019-10-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026135222/http://www.bookclubcentral.org/2017/11/20/booklists-top-10-first-novels-2017/|url-status=dead}} Brian Leung said of Mehta's short story collection, "Quarantine marks a turning of a corner, a representative flashpoint, at least, for LGBT and Asian-American writers who have felt obligated to center their creative work around savory dishes, coming out, the exotic customs of intervening relatives, protest, all the expected signifiers." Leung concludes, "Mehta's stories acknowledge that we can occupy more than one subject position."{{Cite web|url=https://aaww.org/unquarantined-rahul-mehta/|title=Unquarantined|date=2013-10-02|website=Asian American Writers' Workshop|language=en|access-date=2019-06-11}} V. Jo Hsu writes that Mehta "artfully interweaves sexual and racial tensions without creating an antagonistic "other."{{Cite web|url=https://fictionwritersreview.com/review/reviewlet-quarantine-by-rahul-mehta/|title=[Reviewlet] Quarantine, by Rahul Mehta|last=Hsu|first=V. Jo|website=Fiction Writers Review|access-date=2019-06-11}}
Awards
- Out Magazine Out 100, 2011{{Cite web|url=http://www.out.com/out-exclusives/out100/2011/12/11/17th-annual-out100|title=17th Annual Out100|date=2011-12-11|website=www.out.com|language=en|access-date=2019-06-11}}
- Lamba Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction, 2012
- Asian American Literary Award for Fiction, 2012
- American Library Association, Over The Rainbow Citation{{Cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/quarantine-stories|title=Quarantine: Stories {{!}} Awards & Grants|website=www.ala.org|access-date=2019-06-11}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://rahulmehtawriter.com/}}
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSVBIEZIC_g PBS Interview]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkQ2qWJwtLQ NDTV Interview]
- [https://minoritiesinpublishing.tumblr.com/post/159792956732/episode-55-interview-with-rahul-mehta Minorities in Publishing Podcast Interview]
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Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:American novelists of Asian descent
Category:American short story writers of Asian descent
Category:Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction winners
Category:American LGBTQ novelists
Category:American queer writers
Category:Writers from West Virginia
Category:Novelists from West Virginia
Category:LGBTQ people from West Virginia
Category:American LGBTQ people of Asian descent
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