Raj Kamal Jha

Raj Kamal Jha is a journalist and a novelist. He works in New Delhi as Editor of The Indian Express, which has won the International Press Institute's Award for Excellence in Journalism three times. Jha's first novel, The Blue Bedspread, won the 2000 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Eurasia) and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His second novel, If You Are Afraid of Heights, was a finalist for the Hutch-Crossword Book Award in 2003. He has also been shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. His third novel, Fireproof, debuted in German at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2006 and topped CNN-IBN's list of best books of the year. His novels have been published in over a dozen languages.