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About Vikas Swarup

Vikas Swarup (born 22 June 1961) is an Indian writer and retired diplomat of the Indian Foreign Service who served as the Secretary (West) at the Ministry of External Affairs, India on 30 June 2021 and previously served as High Commissioner of India in Canada and has been the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs. He authored the novel Q & A, adapted in film as Slumdog Millionaire, the winner of Best Film for the year 2009 at the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards and BAFTA Awards.

Swarup joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1986 and served in Turkey, the United States, Ethiopia, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Japan in various Indian diplomatic missions. His other novels are Six Suspects and The Accidental Apprentice. In April 2015, he was appointed as the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs of India to head its Public Diplomacy divisions at New Delhi, succeeding Syed Akbaruddin.

In December 2019, Swarup took charge as Secretary (West) in the Ministry of External Affairs, looking after relations with Europe, Central Asia as well as the United Nations system.

Vikas Swarup writes about Fiction, Waiters, Poor, Billionaires, India, and Television quiz shows. Their best-known work is The Accidental Apprentice.

On FindMyTBR we track 9 books by Vikas Swarup, 9 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Die wundersame Beförderung, Las siete vidas de Devi, and Le dodici domande. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.