Beach Boy

Ardashir Vakil (born 1962) is an Indian-born British novelist whose debut work, Beach Boy, won the Betty Trask Award in 1997 and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award, while his second novel One Day was shortlisted for the Encore Award. Khabar. Born in Bombay to a Parsi family, he was educated at The Doon School and Cambridge University, later moving to London where he teaches creative writing at Goldsmiths, University of London.Arvon Foundation, Wikidata.