Vikram Chandra was born in New Delhi in 1961 and was educated at Mayo College in Rajasthan, St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai, Pomona College, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Houston.
His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and the David Higham Prize for Fiction. His collection of short stories, Love and Longing in Bombay, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book; was short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize; and was included in “Notable Books of 1997” by the New York Times Book Review, in “Best Books of the Year” by the Independent, in “Best Books of the Year” by the Guardian, and in “The Ten Best Books of 1997” by Outlook magazine.
His work has also been published in The Paris Review and The New Yorker, and anthologized in 1998's the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror.
Chandra also co-wrote the Indian film Mission Kashmir, which was released internationally in 2000.
He currently lives with his wife, Melanie, in Mumbai and Berkeley, California, where he teaches creative writing at the University of California.
His work has been translated into eleven languages. His new novel, Sacred Games, was published January 2007.
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