
Stephen Alter

Stephen Alter
Stephen Alter is the author of twenty books of fiction and non-fiction. He was born in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India and much of his writing focuses on the Himalayan region, where he continues to live and work.
His honours include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fulbright award. Wild Himalaya: A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth is his latest book of non-fiction. His memoir, Becoming a Mountain: Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublime received the Kekoo Naoroji Award for Himalayan Literature in 2015. His most recent work of fiction, In The Jungles of the Night: A Novel About Jim Corbett, was shortlisted for the DSC South Asian Literature Award in 2017.
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Wild Himalaya
VoW 2020 | Speaker | English Literature
VoW 2020 | Speaker | English Literature
November 22, 2020
11:30am to 12:30pm at Savoy State Room
Explore Session
Reminiscence
VoW 2020 | Speaker | Miscellaneous
VoW 2020 | Speaker | Miscellaneous
November 21, 2020
6:45pm to 7:30pm at Fireside Chat
Explore Session
“LINES, LENSES & LANDSCAPES”
VoW 2019 | Speaker |
VoW 2019 | Speaker |
November 15, 2019
1:10pm to 2:00pm at
Explore Session