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Vikram Kapur

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Born

India

Website

http://www.vikramkapur.com/

Genre

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Memoir

Influences

Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, William Butler Yeats, Tim O'Brien, Ro ...more

Member Since

October 2017

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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 anth ...more

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A publication in Portuguese

Recently, a story of mine entitled 'The Boy in the Back of the Shop' was translated into Portuguese and published in a Brazilian anthology called Terra Magica, edited by Lu Evans. The anthology features stories by Brazilian and Indian authors. Very happy to see this come out. It is great to know that your work is being read by an entirely new group of readers and will hopefully have an impact on t Read more of this blog post »

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Vikram Kapur’s books

Average rating: 3.98 · 128 ratings · 68 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Assassinations: A Novel of 1984 3.93 avg rating — 74 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pleasure Principle-The Amaryllis Book of Erotic Stories by G. Sampath (editor), Aditya Sharma, Amitav Kumar 3.66 avg rating — 29 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	1984 : In Memory and Imagination Personal Essays and Stories on the 1984 Anti Sikh Riots 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	THE ASSASSINATIONS 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Have a Safe Journey: The World’s First Collection of Short Stories on Road Safety by Ashwin Sanghi (Goodreads Author) (Guest Author), Anand Neelakantan (Goodreads Author) (Guest Author), Kiran Manral (Goodreads Author) (Guest Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time is a fire 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wages of Life - A Novel 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Number 9 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Vikram Kapur (?)

“To Deepa, Prem gave no hint of the churning inside him. In front of her he affected a cheery demeanour, indulging her in her plans for their honeymoon, which she kept revising. It was a welcome escape from the mayhem surrounding him. There were occasions where the pretence got to him and a voice rose inside, urging him to tell her everything. He silenced it. Deepa was a Hindu and would never understand.
Until then, he had never thought of her as different.
From Vikram Kapur's upcoming novel: The Assassinations: A Novel of 1984.”
― Vikram Kapur

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“You don't realise how much of a native you are until you become a foreigner.”
― Vikram Kapur, Time is a fire

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