Siddharth Shanghvi

Siddharth was born in Juhu and was educated at Mithibai College in Mumbai and the University of Westminster, London.

He wrote his first novel, The Last Song of Dusk, at twenty two but shelved the book for several years while obtaining a degree in Communications at San Jose State University in California.

The novel was published in 2004 and went on to win the Betty Trask Award and the Premio Grinzane Cavour and was nominated for the IMPAC Prize. His second novel, The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay, was nominated for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2008.

First published in India in 2008, The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay will be published in October 2010.