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Acclaimed writer Vikram Chandra will give a public reading from his latest book, Sacred Games, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), on Monday November 5 at 6:30pm in room 6-120. This event is free and no tickets or reservations are required. The reading is sponsored by the MIT Literature Faculty with assistance from the MIT Council for the Arts, MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures Section, and the Cultural Council of the Indian Diaspora. Born and raised in New Delhi, Chandra attended Film School at Columbia University in New York, where he was inspired to write his first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain; it won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and the David Higham Prize. He has also written the short story collection Love and Longing in Bombay, for which he won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize. His most recent book, the celebrated Sacred Games, has been called "a great novel, perhaps the greatest book on Bombay ever written" (Hindustan Times). His work has been translated into 15 languages. Chandra splits his time between Berkeley, where he teaches Creative Writing at the University of California, and Mumbai. For additional information please contact Joli Divon Saraf at joli@mit.edu or the MIT Literature Section at (617) 258-5629 |
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