Vijay Singh is an Indian film-maker and writer living in Paris.After studying History at St Stephen's College, Delhi, and Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, he moved to Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, for his doctoral work.While he was still a student in the early eighties, he started contributing articles to the French press and has, since, written extensively for Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique, Libération, Guardian and several other newspapers.Over the years, he began to devote more time and energy to literary work. He is the author of several books that have won wide critical acclaim: Jaya Ganga, In Search of the River Goddess, (Penguin, 1989), La Nuit Poignardée (Flammarion, 1987), Whirpool of Shadows (Jonathan Cape, 1992), The River Goddess (Gallimard Jeunesse/Moonlight, 1994). His books are translated into French and other European languages.Many years after he wrote and directed a play, Waiting for Beckett by Godot (1976), he made Man and Elephant (1989), a film, which has been shown on nearly 100 television channels the world over.The internationally-acclaimed Jaya Ganga was his first feature film (www.vijaysingh.net) It ran for over 49 weeks on the Paris screens before going on to play in 80 cinemas in the UK. It was also shown in several festivals, often in the competition category.He has just completed his second feature, One Dollar Curry, which is slated to be commercially released in November 2004.Vijay Singh was awarded the Prix Villa Médicis hors les murs for foreign literature in 1990 and the Bourse Léonardo de Vinci in 1994.