I have published three critically-acclaimed novels, Time Is a Fire, The Wages of Life and The Assassinations, as well as edited a well-known anthology of writing on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots entitled 1984: In Memory and Imagination. My last novel The Assassinations was published in November 2017.

I have published several short stories and pieces of nonfiction in the United Kingdom, United States and India. My short fiction has been broadcast over the radio in over twenty countries.

I have also contributed to national and international publications as a writer and a columnist. These include, among others, World Literature Today, Wasafiri, Litro, Ambit, the Dublin Quarterly, New Writing, Driftwood, The Seattle Times, The Hindu, The Times of India, Frontline and Firstpost. A full list of publications is available on my website www.vikramkapur.com

National and International Recognition

My short fiction has been shortlisted or longlisted in a number of major international competitions including, among others, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (UK), the Fish International Short Story Prize (Ireland) and the Radiobooks Short Story Prize (Radio Netherlands World Service).

I have received several prestigious scholarships and fellowships including, among others, the Vermont Studio Center fellowship (USA), the Canserrat Arts Center residency (Spain), the India-Africa bursary from the University of East Anglia (UK), the Wesleyan scholarship (U.S.A.) and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers scholarship (U.S.A.).

I have been Visiting Writer or Writer-in-Residence at a number of universities including, most recently, IIT Madras, Asian College of Journalism and the University of Heidelberg in Germany.

My experience has taught me that it is important to read as a writer and write as a reader. The creative and the critical are not mutually exclusive. Rather, they are complementary. It is not possible to excel in one while ignoring the other, which is the key lesson I wish to pass on to my students.

Educational Qualifications

• 1991 B.A. English Armstrong State College (now Armstrong Atlantic State University)
• 1994 Master of Mass Communication University of Georgia
• 2010 PhD in creative and critical writingUniversity of East Anglia

Work Experience

• Professor of English, , Shiv Nadar University
• Visiting Professor of Creative and Critical Writing, Asian College of Journalism
• Lecturer of Literature and Creative Writing, The Open University in the East of England
• Tutor, University of East Anglia
• Senior Instructor, Left to do PhD, Seattlle Central Communuty College

Teaching & Research Interests