Animal's People (Sinha) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—1950
• Where—Coloba, Maharashtra, India
• Education—Mayo College (India); Oakham School (England);
   Cambridge University
• Awards—
• Currently—lives in southern France


Indra Sinha was born in India. His work of non-fiction, The Cybergypsies, and his first novel, The Death of Mr Love, met with widespread critical acclaim. He lives in France (From the publisher.)

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Indra Sinha is a British writer of English and Indian descent. Formerly a copywriter for London advertising agency, Collett Dickenson Pearce, Sinha has the distinction of having been voted one of the top ten British copywriters of all time.

Indra Sinha's books, in addition to his translations of ancient Sanskrit texts into English, include a non-fiction memoir of the pre-internet generation (Cybergypsies), and novels based on the 1959 case of K. M. Nanavati vs. State of Maharashtra (in which Nanavati was accused of shooting his wife's paramour), and the Bhopal disaster (the 1984 chemical spill by an American corporation which killed at least 8,000 Indians).

Animal's People, his most recent book, was a 2007 Man Booker Prize nominee and a regional winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

Sinha is the son of an Indian naval officer and an English writer. He was educated at Mayo College, Ajmer, Rajasthan in India, where he studied Hindi and Sanskrit; Oakham School, Rutland, England and Pembroke College, Cambridge in England, where he studied English literature. After living in England for four decades, he and his wife currently live in southern France. They have three grown-up children. (From Wikipedia.)