Vikas Swarup

Vikas Swarup (* 1963 in Allahabad ) is an Indian diplomat and writer.

He wrote the bestseller Q and A, what questions and answers ( questions and responses) and the German title rupees! Rupees! bears. This is a novel about a poor Indian waiter who wins a billion rupees in a quiz show, and then on the basis of suspicion lands on fraud in prison. His book Swarup was in his own words inspired by a visit to one of the learning stations of the education project Hole in the Wall. The book was published in 2005, has been translated into almost 30 languages ​​and was made ​​into a film titled Slumdog Millionaire (2008). In 2009 he was awarded a total of eight Oscars.

Swarup is working since 1986 in the Indian Foreign Ministry and was appointed in August 2009 to Consul General in Osaka - Kobe, where he also resides at the time.

Works

  • 2005 rupees! Rupees!
  • 2009 Again and again Gandhi, Kiepenheuer Malevich, Cologne 2009 ISBN 978-3-462-04165-1
  • 2013 The Accidental Apprentice ( no German translation )
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