Vikram Chandra

Vikram Chandra’s first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book and the David Higham Prize. His collection of short stories, Love and Longing in Bombay, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book (Eurasia Region). Sacred Games was awarded the Hutch Crossword Award for English Fiction and the Salon Book Award. His latest book is Mirrored Mind: My Life in Letters and Code, a non-fiction New York Times Editor’s Choice selection. Chandra is a recipient of the Guggenheim fellowship, and his work has been translated into nineteen languages.