Amish Tripathi

Amish Tripathi

Amish is a diplomat and author. He has written 11 books, publishing the first in 2010. Six million copies of his books have been sold and they have been translated into 20 languages. War of Lanka is his most recent book. Amish has been an Eisenhower Fellow, won the 21st Century Icon Award in the UK in 2021 and the Golden Book award for his novel Suheldev in 2022. The BBC has called Amish India's Tolkien. He has hosted many television documentaries, including for Discovery TV’s highly acclaimed Legends of the Ramayana with Amish. The author has been minister (culture) at the Indian High Commission in the UK and the director of The Nehru Centre in London since October 2019. Amish is an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta and worked in the financial services industry for 14 years before turning to full-time writing.

 

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