Indra Sinha was born into a family of writers. He was educated at Cambridge and got a job in advertising. His work at the London agency, Collett Dickenson Pearce for Amnesty International led him to co-found and launch the Kurdish Disaster Fund (1990) and the Bhopal Medical Appeal (1994) which funds two free clinics in Bhopal for the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster.
His novel Animal’s People was shortlisted for the Booker in 2007 and won the following year’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Europe and South Asia. In 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”.
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