Nikesh Shukla

Shukla is the author of three novels: Coconut Unlimited (2010),[6] Meatspace (2014)[7] and The One Who Wrote Destiny (2018).[8]

He is also the author of two books for Young Adults: Run, Riot (2018) and The Boxer (2019).

In 2017 he one of was one of the co-founders of the Jhalak Prize awarded annually to British or British resident writers of colour.[9][10][11]

In 2019 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[12] He was a Rathbones Folio Prize Mentor in 2019–2020.[13]

Brown Baby, a memoir addressed to his young daughter, was published in 2021.[14] He hosts a podcast of the same name.[15]

Shukla co-wrote the short film Two Dosas with Sarmad Masud. It starred Himesh Patel. After Danny Boyle awarded the film Best Short at the 2017 Shuffle Festival,[16] Boyle cast Patel in the title role of Jack in Yesterday (2019).

Shukla has been a columnist for The Observer's magazine supplement and The Pool.

In January 2019, Shukla appeared in series 47 of the BBC Radio 4 show Great Lives, nominating Pakistani wrestler The Great Gama (1878–1960).[17]

Shukla hosted a podcast called The Subaltern podcast, in which he has conversations with writers about writing.[18] He also co-hosted a podcast called Meat Up, Hulk Out with sci-fi writer James Smythe.[19]

• Shukla, Nikesh (2010). Coconut Unlimited. London: Quartet. ISBN 978-0-704-37204-7. OCLC 661047464.
• Shukla, Nikesh (2013). The Time Machine. New York: Galley Beggar Press. ISBN 978-1-910-29605-9. OCLC 875097790.
• Shukla, Nikesh (2014). Meatspace. London: Friday Project. ISBN 978-0-007-56508-5. OCLC 1004224836.
• Shukla, Nikesh (2018). The One Who Wrote Destiny. London: Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-1-786-49280-7. OCLC 1098249965.
• Shukla, Nikesh (2018). Run, Riot. London: Hodder Children's Books. ISBN 978-1-444-94068-8. OCLC 1039899069.
• Shukla, Nikesh (2019). The Boxer. London: Hodder Children's Books. ISBN 978-1-444-94070-1. OCLC 1110445739.
• Shukla, Nikesh (2021). Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home. London: Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-529-03291-8. OCLC 1144864045.

• Shukla, Nikesh, ed. (2016). The Good Immigrant: 21 Writers Explore What It Means to be Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic in Britain Today. London: Unbound. ISBN 978-1-783-52296-5. OCLC 1064008971.
• Shukla, Nikesh; Suleyman, Chimène, eds. (2019). The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-52429-2. OCLC 1083266326.
• Shukla, Nikesh; Jones, Sammy, eds. (2019). Rife: Twenty-One Stories from Britain's Youth. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-52429-2. OCLC 1107493815.

• Yates, Kieran; Shukla, Nikesh (2011). Summer of Unrest: Generation Vexed: What the English Riots Don't Tell Us About Our Nation's Youth. London: Vintage Digital. ISBN 978-1-448-11475-7.
• Shukla, Nikesh (2013). The Time Machine. London: Galley Beggar Press.
• Heuchan, Claire; Shukla, Nikesh (2018). What is Race? Who are Racists? Why Does Skin Colour Matter? And Other Big Questions. London, England: Wayland. ISBN 978-1526303981.