Author: Arun Joshi
Born: 7 July 1939
Died: April 1993
Bio: Arun Joshi (1939-1993) was an Indian writer. He is known for his novels *The Strange Case of Billy Biswas* and *The Apprentice*. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel *The Last Labyrinth* in 1982. His novels have characters who are urban, English speaking and disturbed for some reason. According to one commentator, "The shallowness of middle-class society is not for him a point of rhetoric, intended to show off his own enlightened superiority, but a theme to be explored with actual concern."