Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi's first novel, The Last Song of Dusk, won the Betty Trask Award in the UK, the Premio Grinzane Cavour in Italy, and was nominated for the IMPAC Prize in Ireland. His second book, The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay, was shortlisted for the Man Asian Prize. The two novels, along with The Rabbit & the Squirrel and Loss, essays on death and grief, are published by HarperCollins India. Shanghvi works and lives in a village in north Goa.
