Vikram Chandra
Autor(a) de Sacred Games
About the Author
Author Vikram Chandra was born in New Delhi, India in 1961. He attended college in the United States receiving a BA in English with a concentration in creative writing from Pomona College and attended the film school at Columbia University before dropping out to work on his first novel. His first mostrar mais novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, was inspired by an autobiography of a nineteenth century soldier named Colonel James "Sikander" Skinner. It won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and the David Higham Prize for Fiction. His next novel, Love and Longing in Bombay, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Eurasia region) and was short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize. In 2000, he and Suketu Mehta co-wrote the Bollywood movie Mission Kashmir. He teaches creative writing at the University of California and currently divides his time between Berkeley, California and Mumbai. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras por Vikram Chandra
Dharma 1 exemplar
The Red Tent 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contribuidor — 345 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (1998) — Contribuidor — 242 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Chandra, Vikram
- Data de nascimento
- 1961
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- India
- Local de nascimento
- New Delhi, India
- Locais de residência
- New Delhi, India
Mumbai, India
Oakland, California, USA - Educação
- Pomona College (1984)
Mayo College, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India
St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, India
Johns Hopkins University - Ocupações
- novelist
creative writing teacher - Relações
- Abrams, Melanie (wife)
Membros
Críticas
Listas
All Things India (2)
Global Mysteries (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 11
- Also by
- 4
- Membros
- 3,791
- Popularidade
- #6,686
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 84
- ISBN
- 107
- Línguas
- 10
- Marcado como favorito
- 9