This Author, in 1997, won a Betty Trask Award for his first novel "Beach Boy". The novel was also shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award. "One Day", his second novel, was shortlisted for the Encore Award.
He is an author who started his life in Bombay where he was born. His first and second novels were both shortlisted for two well known awards, the Whitbread First Novel award and the Encore award respectively.
