Vikram Chandra

Vikram Chandra has been called “that rare thing, a writer who is simultaneously a master story-teller and a master stylist” (the Spectator). Chandra’s bestselling novel, Sacred Games, is a sprawling tale of Mumbai’s phantasmagoric criminal underworld and the unforgettable figures who populate it. Chandra is also the author of a short-story collection, Love and Longing in Bombay, which the New York Times Book Review called “a considerable achievement, one in which the author marries his storytelling prowess to a profound understanding of India’s ageless and ever-changing society.” His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. Chandra has also been honored with the David Higham Prize, the Eurasia Region Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and numerous other awards. A graduate of Pomona College and the University of Houston, Chandra lives in Mumbai and California, where he teaches creative writing at UC Berkeley.