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Banker-novelist Ravi Subramanian Acquired by Penguin

PTI

NEW DELHI: Author Ravi Subramanian's new fiction, a thriller has been acquired by Penguin Random House, which will also publish an anthology compiled by the author, publishers said today.

Subramanian, who is a career banker and finance service professional has penned 7 novels so far and is thrice winner of the Crossword Popular Choice award.

"I am delighted that we will continue our relationship with Ravi Subramaniam and publish his next thriller due next year as well as an anthology. Ravi is one of the most popular and talented authors in the country today and I am really looking forward to continuing to work together to build his list," Milee Ashwarya, Editor-in-Chief, Commercial and Business, Penguin Random House India said in a statement today.

"If God was a Banker" (2007) won Subramanian the Golden Quill Readers' choice award in 2008. He also won the Economist Crossword Book Award for The Incredible Banker in 2012.  "The Bankster", released in 2012 won him the Crossword Book Award in 2013 and "Bankerupt" was the Popular Choice Award winner at Raymond Crossword Awards in 2015.

An alumnus of Indian Institute of Management, Subramanian has worked with various multinational banks. Each one of his books thus far has been set in the backdrop of a foreign bank.

In his last book "God is a Gamer" the Mumbai-based author had written about investigators plunging headlong into the shady world of the new currency called bitcoins.

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