Deepti Kapoor

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Deepti Kapoor (born 1980) [1] is an Indian author and journalist currently based in Portugal. [2] [3] Her first novel, A Bad Character, was published in 2015. [4] In 2023, Kapoor published her second novel, Age of Vice , whose rights were sold to FX Studio for a major TV series. [5] Kapoor was born in Moradabad and lived in Delhi and Goa before moving to Lisbon. [6] [7]

Education

Kapoor attended Welham Girls' School, an all-girls boarding school in Dehradun. [8] She went on to pursue journalism at Delhi University, followed by a master's in social psychology. [9]

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References

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