Indra Sinha

Indra Sinha in his garden in France, March 2007

Indra Sinha (born 1950 in Colaba,[1] Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is a British writer of Indian and English descent.[2] Animal's People, his most recent novel, was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize[3][4] and winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Europe and South Asia.

In July 2015, Sinha was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Literature by the University of Brighton for "his major contribution to literature and demonstrating the power of words in changing people’s lives".[5]

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  5. ^ "The man whose words changed lives". University of Brighton. 29 July 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2019.