Vikram Paralkar

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Vikram Paralkar is a hematologist and writer whose fiction blends the rational and the mythic. His debut novel, "The Wounds of the Dead," was praised by Salman Rushdie as "a stunning meditation on mortality and meaning." A graduate of Grant Medical College in Mumbai and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Paralkar brings a unique perspective to his explorations of the body, disease, and healing. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award and was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. He practices medicine in Philadelphia while continuing to write.