Gregory David Roberts

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born

June 01, 1952 in Melbourne, Australia

gender

male

website

http://www.shantaram.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Screenwriter

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Грегори Дэвид Робертс

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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Average rating: 4.22 · 22,747 ratings · 3,944 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Shantaram 4.22 avg rating — 22,651 ratings — published 2003 — 48 editions	My rating:
	Shantaram Part Two by Gregory David Roberts, Bower Humphrey (Read by) 4.62 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Chin Music 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Mountain Shadow 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

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“Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

tags: love

159 people liked it

“Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

tags: bombay , india , mumbai

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