A note about the author

The author of Slumdog Millionaire is Vikas Swarup. This man was born in India. Vikas went to study psychology, history and philosofy at Allahabad University. In 1986, he joined the Indian Foreign Service. As a diplomat, he worked at Turkey, the United States of America, Ethiopia, Great Britian and South Afrifca. In August 2009, he became Consul General of India in Japan.

Q and A is the title of the book which was made into the film Slumdog Millionaire. This was his first book. It took him only two months to write, but has now been published in forty-two different languages and made into a very succesful film. He has written a second novel, Six Suspects, which was published in 2008.

Vikes likes listening music, playing cricket(the famous sport in India) tennis and table tennis. He is married to Aparna and the have two sons, Aditya and Varun.