| Names |
ASHOK KUMAR BANKER |
| Date of
Birth |
February 07, 1964 |
| Identity |
Indian Autheor and
Screenwriter |
| General |
- He is an internationally acclaimed and bestselling
contemporary author and screenwriter.
- His writing spans crime thrillers, essays, literary
criticism, fiction and mythological retellings.
- The author of several well-received novels including a
trilogy billed as "India's first crime novels in English",
he became widely known for his retellings of Indian
mythological epics, starting with the internationally
acclaimed and best-selling eight-volume Ramayana Series,
which has been credited with the resurgence of mythology in
Indian publishing.
- The New York Times credited him with making mythology
the most successful category in Indian publishing,
describing his work as being "better written than many books
in the genre that have followed – introduced the Ramayana to
a new generation of readers."
- His books have sold over 2 million copies and have been
published in 16 languages in 58 countries.
- His Epic India Library is an attempt to retell all the
myths, legends and itihasa of the Indian sub-continent in
one massive story cycle comprising over 70 volumes, "an epic
library of India".
- He is frequently nominated and shortlisted as one of
India's top thinkers and celebrities.
- The upcoming two-film adaptation of his Mahabharata is
expected to be the biggest Indian film production to date.
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