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. 

About the author

The author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh, and he was a Scottish writer. He died in the occidental part of Samoa, whose habitants put him the nickname of “Tusitala” which means “the one who tells stories”. He used to write narrative novels.

His father worked as an engineer, and Stevenson graduated in law, subject that he studied in the University of Edinburgh. However, he never worked as a lawyer. He tried to live in places where the air was clean, as he had problems with his lungs. He travelled a lot, and that’s the reason why all his first novels were about descriptions of those places.

 In one trip to California he met Fanny Osbourne, an American lady who was divorced and was 8 years older than him. They got married in 1879, year in which he became a famous novelist because of the book called Treasure Island. He travelled to Switzerland and to France, and in 1884 he came back to the United Kingdom, where he stayed until 1887. During that period of time he published other novels like The black arrow: A tale of the Two Roses, Kidnapped and his most famous one: The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which was and is considered one of the best novels about fantastic terror.