Author

The Author: Vikas Swarup

The writer of this book, entitled Slumdog Millionaire, is Vikas Swarup, who was born in Allahabad, in India. He studied psychology, history and philosophy at college, and in 1986 he joined the Indian Foreign Service. Due to that, he worked in Turkey, USA, Ethiopia, Great Britain and South Africa. He is married to a woman called Aparna and he has two sons: Aditya and Varun.

The original title of Slumdog Millionaire was Q and A, but the film based on it changed the name. This book is the first one of Vikas Swarup, and it only took him to write two months. It has had an enormous success, and it has been translated to forty-two languages, including spanish and catalan. The book's popularity increased when a film about it was made (starring Dev Patel and Freida Pinto). After Slumdog Millionaire, Vikas Swarup wrote another novel: Six Suspects, published in 2008.

The film won 8 Oscars including best movie and best director.