Nigel Anthony Collett (born 20 October 1952) is a former lieutenant-colonel in the British Army and author of The Butcher of Amritsar.
He is a contributor to the Asian Review of Books and to China Daily and is a moderator for the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, for which he was instrumental in promoting the first event which had a focus on gay and lesbian writing in 2008.
[1] Collett attended the Commonweal School, Swindon, England from 1963 to 1970[2] and St Peter's College, Oxford, taking a Bachelor of Arts in Modern History in 1973.
He served in the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment and in 1974 attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
[2] From 1981 to 1982 he served as a company commander with the Western Frontier Regiment on secondment to the Land Forces of the Sultan of Oman.