When was this British Indian novelist and essayist born, who wrote a novel in 2010 that was published by Jonathan Cape, Random House?
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Luka and the Fire of Life Luka and the Fire of Life is a novel by Salman Rushdie. It was published by Jonathan Cape, Random House in 2010. It is the sequel to "Haroun and the Sea of Stories". Rushdie has said "he turned to the world of video games for inspiration" and that "he wrote the book for his 13-year-old son".
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Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, FRSL ( ; Kashmiri: अहमद सलमान रुशदी , ; born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, "Midnight's Children" (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He combines magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations.
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Olufemi Terry Olufemi Terry is a Sierra Leone-born writer. He won the 2010 Caine Prize for African Writing for his second short story "Stickfighting Days," which was originally published in "Chimurenga". The judges said he was "a talent with an enormous future". He hopes to publish his debut novel soon.
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Kusum Sawhney Kusum Lata Sawhney is a British-Indian author. She was born in the United Kingdom and she moved to India in 1989. She is the author of the novel "Kindred Spirits", published in 1995. The book is an account of women's sexuality, the changing Indian social scene, and the undercurrents that continue in a whirlpool of their own. Sawhney has written a collection of poems and worked as a journalist for "India Today".
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Bani Basu Bani Basu (born 11 March 1939) is a Bengali Indian author, essayist, critic and poet. She was educated at the well-known Scottish Church College and at the University of Calcutta.
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Paul Strathern Paul Strathern (born 1940) is a British writer and academic. He was born in London, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, after which he served in the Merchant Navy over a period of two years. He then lived on a Greek island. In 1966 he travelled overland to India and the Himalayas. His novel "A Season in Abyssinia" won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1972.
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Walter Landor Dickens Walter Savage Landor Dickens (8 February 1841 – 31 December 1863) was the fourth child and second son of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. He became an officer cadet in the East India Company's Presidency armies just before the Indian Mutiny. The mutiny resulted in the British Crown extending direct rule to India, and Dickens continued to serve in what was now becoming the British Indian Army until his death.
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Balli Kaur Jaswal Balli Kaur Jaswal is a Singaporean novelist, having family roots in Punjab, region. Her first novel "Inheritance" won the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelist Award in 2014, and her second novel "Sugarbread" was a finalist for the 2015 inaugural Epigram Books Fiction Prize. Her third novel, "Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows" was released to international acclaim in 2017.
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Shomprakash Sinha Roy Shomprakash Sinha Roy (Born "Shomprakash Asit Baran Anil Baran Sinha Roy") is an author of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, based in Bangalore, India. He is the author of the novel "The Pink Smoke". He has written many short stories and is a regular contributor to online journals such as The Youth Express. He has appeared in the Penguin Books- SIP Books Cross Cultural Anthology: "The Traversal of Lines" with his best-selling short story "Three Days in a Week". His novel "The Pink Smoke" was published by Grapevine India Publishers. He was also a winner on NaNoWriMo – an international contest for authors, where entire manuscripts are written within a span of 30 calendar days.
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Tony D'Souza Tony D'Souza is an American novelist, journalist, essayist, reviewer, travel and short story writer. He has published three novels with and director Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and in foreign translations: "Whiteman" (2006), "The Konkans" (2008), and "Mule" (2011).
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Sea of Poppies Sea of Poppies (2008) is a novel by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008. It is the first volume of the Ibis trilogy. The second volume is "River of Smoke".
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Last Man in Tower Last Man In Tower is a 2011 novel by Indian writer Aravind Adiga. Published by HarperCollins India, it was the third published book and second published novel by Adiga. It tells the story of a struggle for a slice of shining Mumbai real estate. The protagonist of the novel is a retired schoolteacher named Yogesh A. Murthy, who is affectionately known as Masterji.
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Saumya Balsari Saumya Balsari is a British Indian author. Balsari has been named one of Britain's leading South Asian women by redhotcurry.com. She is currently researching her third novel as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Cambridge, Centre of Latin American Studies. Her second book was "Summer of Blue", a novel for young adults. It was published in 2013 as an ebook (Arcadia Books) and paperback. Her first novel, "The Cambridge Curry Club", is the 2010 winner of the first ever Cambridgeshire Book of the Decade.  The book was selected at Cambridge Wordfest 2012 by Oxygen Books, City Picks, for a public reading of Cambridge's finest writing.Cambridge Wordfest 2012 The title was also chosen for The National Year of Reading and by BBC Radio Cambridgeshire for its 2008 A Book a Day project in May. Balsari's writing has been favourably compared by Alexander McCall Smith to that of Booker Prize Winners Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai. Other eminent reviewers of her work include the well-known actress and author Meera Syal and television comedy writer Ronald Wolfe (Writing Comedy).
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Act of Murder Act of Murder is a 2010 novel by the English writer Alan Wright. It won the Dundee International Book Prize, the largest monetary British Prize for first novels, in 2010, and was published by Polygon Press. It is a historical murder mystery set in 1894.
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Daisy Hasan Daisy Hasan () is an Indian-English author from Shillong, Meghalaya and is the author of "The To-Let House". It was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008.
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Peter Prince Peter Prince (born 10 May 1942) is a British novelist. He was born in England and studied in America. His first novel "Play Things" won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1973. He won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or a Special for his work on the 1980 BBC miniseries "Oppenheimer". His novel "The Good Father" was adapted into a "film" starring Anthony Hopkins. His latest novel "Adam Runaway" was published in 2005.
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Arunabha Sengupta Arunabha Sengupta (born 1973) is an Indian novelist. He has written 4 novels and one collection of short stories. He is also a cricket historian and the Chief Cricket Writer at CricketCountry.com.
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Our Kind of Traitor Our Kind of Traitor is a novel published in 2010 by the British novelist John le Carré about a Russian money launderer seeking to defect after his close friend is killed by his new superiors.
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Jagdish Rai Singh Jagdish Rai Singh (born 29 June 1953), affectionately known as Roy, is a Guyanese novelist, essayist and short story writer. He is best known for the use of clear and concise language on a wide range of topics, ranging from religious, social, political and economic issues. His book "Earthly Tribulations" was described as a “thought-provoking, no-nonsense, and intelligent book that can either start an argument or settle one.”
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Ratan Lal Basu Ratan Lal Basu (Bengali: রতন লাল বসু; born 23 December 1948) is an economist and English fiction author from Kolkata, India.
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Arundhati Roy Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author. She is best known for her novel "The God of Small Things" (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997. This novel became the biggest-selling book by a nonexpatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes.
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Anthony Joseph Anthony Joseph is a British/Trinidadian poet, novelist, musician and academic.