Gregory David Roberts: "When I was tortured in an Indian prison -- chained to a wall and tortured -- I was writing the experience."
Torture just grist for writer's mill
Gregory David Roberts has worked as a counterfeiter and a poet, a smuggler and a speech writer, a street soldier for the Bombay mafia and a journalist.
Finally, Gregory David Roberts, in Launceston yesterday to promote his debut novel Shantaram, has his dream job.
'Writing books is exactly what I've always wanted to do, all my life,' Roberts said before signing copies of the 933-page tome at a Tasmanian bookstore.
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