Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi's debut novel, The Last Song of Dusk, won the Betty Trask Award in the UK, the Premio Grinzane Cavour in Italy, and was nominated for the IMPAC Prize. Translated into 12 languages, The Last Song of Dusk was an international bestseller. 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 Magazine's 50 Most Stylish People. Shanghvi's new novel, The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay, was nominated for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008.