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The author whose novel inspired the award-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire” talks about his life and what’s up next.Vikas Swarup may have penned a small novel that swept the globe, winning accolades and turning out an Oscar darling film but the Indian diplomat to South Africa sees his success as a chance windfall.
While the publicity raged around multiple award-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire, the film interpretation of his novel Q & A, Swarup was serving a stint as India's deputy high commissioner to South Africa.
"I never really thought that I could be a writer,” said Swarup. “It was only when I was posted in London that I first tried my hand at fiction, so I still call myself a diplomat who writes."
Swarup wrote Q & A -- the tale of an 18-year-old waiter from an Indian slum who is accused of cheating when he wins a billion rupees on a quiz show styled after the popular "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" -- in two months. He completed it before leaving London, with his wife and children already gone.
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