عن المؤلف | Mihir Bose is an award winning journalist and author. His histories and biographies include the only narrative history of Bollywood, biographies of Michael Grade and the Indian revolutionary Subhas Bose (no relation), a history of the Muslim community of Memons and a study of the Aga Khans. He has written Silver, the spy who fooled the Nazis, about the most remarkable agent of the Second World War and his most recent book, From Midnight to Glorious Morning?, looks at how India has changed since it became an independent country nearly 70 years ago. He writes regularly for History Today and has contributed to various books including British Greats and Histories of Nations, and he co-authored the story of William Hill.
Bose, who qualified as a chartered accountant, has also written books on fraud and about the 1987 stock market crash. His History of Indian Cricket won the Cricket Society Silver Jubilee Literary Award, the first book on an Indian theme to win this prestigious prize. Sporting Colours, a study of sport and apartheid, was a runner up to the William Hill Sports Book of the Year.
Bose started as a journalist in 1974 with LBC and worked for the Sunday Times for 20 years. At the Daily Telegraph, where he worked for more than a decade, he started the Inside Sport column and did much to develop what is now a growing field analysing the business and politics of sport. He went on to become the first Sports Editor of the BBC. He has written for most of the leading British newspapers and magazines and broadcast for a wide range of outlets including Sky and ITV. His journalism awards include Business Columnist of the Year, Sports Reporter of the Year and Sports Story of the Year. |