Gregory David Roberts
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born
June 01, 1952
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Melbourne, Australia
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Literature & Fiction
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Gregory David Roberts is an Australian author, most noted for his novel Shantaram. He was a heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison and fled to India where he lived for ten years.
Roberts lived in Melbourne, Germany and France, and finally returned to Mumbai, where he set up charitable foundations to assist the city's poor with health care coverage. Roberts was reunited with his daughter.
He also wrote the original screenplay for the movie adaptation of Shantaram (2011) as well as the screenplay for the 2008 film Allegra, which is about the modern slave-trade of women.
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Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts avg rating 4.28 — 4,926 ratings — published 2004 21 editions |
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Shantaram Part 2 by Gregory David Roberts avg rating 4.38 — 8 ratings — published 2006 2 editions |
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Shantaram Part 1 by Gregory David Roberts avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating |
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The Mountain Shadow by Gregory David Roberts avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2010 2 editions |
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"Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears."
— Gregory David Roberts (Shantaram)
— Gregory David Roberts (Shantaram)
"Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart."
— Gregory David Roberts
— Gregory David Roberts
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"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. I realised, somehow, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn’t sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it’s all you’ve got, that freedom is an universe of possibility. And the choice you make between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.
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— Gregory David Roberts (Shantaram)
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— Gregory David Roberts (Shantaram)
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