Alice Albinia

Alice Albinia is the author of Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River (2008) which won a Somerset Maugham Award, the Dolman Travel Prize, the Jerwood/Royal Society of Literature Special Prize for non-fiction and La Toison d’Or du livre d’aventure vécue.

Alice read English Literature at Cambridge University and South Asian history at SOAS. In between, she lived for two years, in Delhi, working as an editor and journalist with the Centre for Science and Environment, Biblio: A Review of Books, Outlook Traveller and various other Indian newspapers and magazines.

During this time she had the idea to write two books: Empires of the Indus, and her first work of fiction, Leela's Book.