Thursday, April 9, 2009

Vikas Swarup--- Author

You may choose to research the author, or the setting that your novel takes place in (the setting may include location and/or time in history). Focus your research on one key idea and write a paragraph that summarizes the information that you found.



For this blog you are responsible for:
a) The paragraph summarizing your research
b)A minimum of one image that relates to your research
c) A link to at least one website that you found informative




The book "Slumdog Millionaire" Vikas Swarup is a well known author, he was born in Allahabad, India. Vikas Swarup's family's a big part of the lawyers industry. Vikas got accepted into Allahabad University, with all the appreciation of his work, he has made his mark as a champion debater. Vikas swarup wanted to let everyone know that not everyone knowledge to enter a game show just with any low paying job under their belt. Vakas swarup has published his first movie called "Q&A" known as "Slumdog millionaire". With this movie he has sold up to forty different translation over the world including, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Punjabi, English and many more languages. His book was the Best First Book by the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize and won South Africa’s Exclusive Books Boeke Prize 2006. Vikas's second novel Six Suspects was published by Trans world in August 2008. IT was a great book as well. It is being translated into several languages. Apart from reading, Vikas enjoys listening to music and playing cricket, tennis and table tennis.His wife Aparna is an artist who has held exhibitions in India and abroad. They have two sons Aditya and Varun.

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