Kunal Basu was born in Calcutta and lived in Montreal for many years. Formerly a professor at McGill University, he now teaches at Oxford University and is married with one daughter. Author of three acclaimed novels – The Opium Clerk, The Miniaturists, and Racists – he has acted on stage and in film and written poetry and screenplays. The Japanese Wife has been made into a film by India’s celebrated director Aparna Sen.