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Rajorshi Chakraborti is an Indian-born New Zealand novelist, essayist and short-story writer. He was born in 1977 in Calcutta, and grew up there and in Mumbai. He has also lived and studied in Canada, England and Scotland. He now lives with his family in Wellington.

Rajorshi is the author of six novels and a collection of short fiction. Or the Day Seizes You was shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award in 2006, and has appeared in a Spanish translation entitled La Vida Que Nos Lleva. Mumbai Rollercoaster received an honourable mention in the Children’s Writing category of the Crossword Book Awards, 2011. The Man Who Would Not See was longlisted for the Ockham Book Awards in 2019.