Nikesh Shukla

Co-Founder & Chair

Nikesh co-founded The Good Literary Agency with Julia and is now its Chair.

He is the editor of bestselling essay collection The Good Immigrant, which won the Reader’s Choice at the Books Are My Bag Awards, and was shortlisted for Book of the Year at the British Book Awards.

He is the author of a number of novels for adults, young adults and children including Coconut Unlimited (shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize), Meatspace, The One Who Wrote Destiny, Run Riot, The Boxer, Stand Up and The Council of Good Friends as well as the memoir Brown Baby, the writing guide Your Story Matters, a 5 part Spider-Man India comic series for Marvel and co-editor of The Good Immigrant USA.

He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the Folio Academy. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from Roehampton University and the University of Bath.