Samit Basu
| Samit Basu সমিত বসু |
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14 December 1979 Kolkata, India |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Period | 2002– |
| Genre | Fantasy, science fiction |
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Samit Basu (Bengali: সমিত বসু; born 14 December 1979) is an Indian novelist whose body of work includes fantasy and superhero novels, children's books, graphic novels and short stories.
Basu is the author of The Simoqin Prophecies, The Manticore's Secret and The Unwaba Revelations, the three parts of The GameWorld Trilogy, a fantasy trilogy published by Penguin Books, India, He gained worldwide presence with Turbulence, a superhero novel set in India, Pakistan and England, published by Titan Books internationally, and its sequel "Resistance". He is also the author of the "Adventures of Stoob" series of children's books set in Delhi, and Terror on the Titanic a YA novel.i. He currently lives and works in Delhi and Mumbai, India.
Born 14 December 1979 in a Bengali family, Basu grew up in Calcutta, where he studied at Don Bosco School, and later Presidency College, Kolkata, where he obtained a degree in Economics. He dropped out of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad to write The Simoqin Prophecies and then went on to complete a course in broadcasting and documentary filmmaking at the University of Westminster, London.
Basu had been well known in India since 2003, when he was in Outlook magazine's list of 16 Indian achievers under 25 along with such personalities as Konkona Sen Sharma and Shreya Ghoshal. In 2007, Basu was declared, along with other prominent young Indians such as Vidya Balan, one of India's most promising 'Emerging Indians' by a survey conducted by IMRB and The Week magazine, India.
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