Indra Sinha Biography

Indra Sinha was born in 1950, the son of an Indian naval officer father and English writer mother. He spent his childhood in Bombay, studying at both Indian and English schools. After studying English literature at Cambridge, Sinha worked as an advertising copywriter and then a translator (Kama Sutra, Tantra). Sinha left advertising to write full-time and published The Cybergypsies (1999) and The Death of Mr. Love (2002). Animal’s People (2007) was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize and awarded the 2008 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, Europe and South Asia. Sinha sourced funding to open a free clinic for the survivors of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, which opened in 1996 and has earned international awards for its work. Sinha was awarded an honorary doctorate in literature by the University of Brighton in 2015 and has been voted one of the top 10 British copywriters of all time. Sinha is father to three grown children and resides with his wife in the Lot valley of southwest France.