Vikram Kapur

Vikram Kapur is a writer from New Delhi. Sometime in his mid-twenties the poetry of William Butler Yeats rocked his world. While his initial ambition of becoming a poet in the tradition of Yeats quickly waned, the writing bug did not. For several years he attempted to snuff out the bug by casting himself in the role of the typical Indian middle-class male. Holding on to a steady job and living a routine life while clamping down hard on literary ambition each time it reared its head. By his mid-thirties, however, he could fight the bug no longer. One day he simply put pen to paper and wrote a passage that became the beginning of his first novel Time Is a Fire.

Since then, Vikram has published another novel The Wages of Life and an edited anthology on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in India called 1984: In Memory and Imagination. He has also published short fiction and nonfiction in anthologies, newspapers and several literary publications around the world. His short fiction has been broadcast internationally on radio and shortlisted in a number of international short story competitions including, among others, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. More information is available on his website.

Vikram has a PhD in creative and critical writing from the University of East Anglia where he substantially raised the average age of his graduating class as a forty-something student. When he is not writing, he is an associate professor of English at Shiv Nadar University near New Delhi.