Vikram Chandra

VIKRAM CHANDRA is the author of Red Earth and Pouring Rain, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book and the David Higham Prize for Fiction, and the short story collection Love and Longing in Bombay, which also won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, this time for Best Book (Eurasia). It was a New York Times Notable Book. He currently divides his time between Mumbai and Berkeley, where he teaches at the University of California.