Siddharth Sanghvi
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| Born | Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi 25 August 1977 Mumbai |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English-language |
| Notable works | The Last Song of Dusk (2004) |
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi (born 1977) is an Indian author. His debut novel The Last Song of Dusk (2004) won the Betty Trask Award (UK), one of UK's most prestigious prizes for debut novels,, the Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy) for the Best Debut novel , and was nominated for the IMPAC Literary Prize (Ireland). It was translated into 16 languages, and became an international bestseller.
Shanghvi’s new novel, The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay (2009) , short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008 , was a number one bestseller. An exhibition of his photographic series, ‘The House Next Door’, opened in 2010 at Sweden's Galleri Kontrast and showed at the Matthieu Foss Gallery, Bombay, India Art Fair, and Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi. A second show, ‘Postcards from The Forest’, exhibited at Sakshi Gallery, Bombay.
As honorary director of Sunaparanta, an arts foundation in Goa, he has curated the work of Roger Ballen, Dayanita Singh, as well as William Dalrymple's visual arts debut, The Writer's Eye, which enjoyed a six-city world tour. Another show, under his direction, of Sooni Taraporevala’s Bombay photographs, is ongoing at The Whitworth, UK; it bears an introduction by Salman Rushdie.
Shanghvi has been voted: India Today’s 50 Most Powerful Young Indians; Times of India’s 10 Global Indians; Hindustan Times: 10 Most Creative Men; Sunday Times, UK: The Next Big Thing; New Statesmen UK: India’s Ten Bright Lights; ELLE 50 Most Stylish People; La Stampa, Italy: World’s 10 Best Dressed Men, Men's Health Style Icon 2011; GQ 50 Best Dressed List; ELLE Style Award 2015. Shanghvi lives in Bombay and Goa, from where he has contributed to TIME, New York Times, ELLE, VOGUE and other publications. He lives in Bombay, and is a contributor to Time, The New York Times, Hindustan Times, OPEN magazine, and other publications.
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