Samit Basu is the author of five novels: 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, Terror on the Titanic a YA novel, and Turbulence, a superhero novel set in India, Pakistan and England, published by Titan Books internationally and Hachette India.
Background
Samit Basu was born on 14 December 1979 in Calcutta where he spent his childhood.
Basu had been well known in India since 2003, when he was in Outlook magazine's list of 16 Indian achievers under 25.In 2007, Basu was declared, along with other prominent young Indians such as Rahul Gandhi and Vidya Balan, one of India's most promising 'Emerging Indians' by a survey conducted by IMRB and The Week magazine, India.
Career
When Samit was 23 he published his first novel "The Simoqin Prophecies". The book, written in English, has been published in Swedish and German. The subsequent volumes in the trilogy, The Manticore's Secret and The Unwaba Revelations were released in 2005 and 2007. . The GameWorld trilogy has been widely well reviewed and all three books have reached Indian bestseller lists. In 2010, Basu wrote a YA novel called Terror on the Titanic and the book that would eventually lead to his international breakthrough, Turbulence. Turbulence is currently Hachette India's most successful Indian title.
The UK publication of Turbulence in 2012 introduced Samit Basu to the West.
Basu is also a comics writer. His initial projects with Virgin Comics were Devi and The Tall Tales of Vishnu Sharma based on the Panchatantra.
Basu is a columnist, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker and freelance journalist writing on travel, film, books and pop culture.