Amit Chaudhuri

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Amit Chaudhuri (born 1962) is an internationaly recognised Indian English author.

1 Life
2 Awards
3 Works
4 External Links
5 References

[edit] Life

Amit Chaudhuri was born in Calcutta and grew up in Bombay. He has written numerous novels, short stories, poems and critical essays in English, but is probably best known for his book Freedom Song. He attended University College London, Balliol College, Oxford and has also been a writer-in-residence at Wolfson College. His novels have won several major awards and he has received international critical acclaim. His latest book is a collection of poems entitled St. Cyril Road and Other Poems, and in 2004 he edited The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature. Amit Chaudhuri is also an acclaimed Indian classical musician. He is currently a creative writing tutor at the University of East Anglia.

[edit] Awards

1991 Betty Trask Award and Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book for A Strange and Sublime Address
1993 Encore Award for Afternoon Raag
2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for A New World
2002 Sahitya Akademi Award for A New World

[edit] Works

Novels

A Strange and Sublime Address (1991)
Afternoon Raag (1993)
Freedom Song (Picador, 1998) excerpt
A New World (Picador, 2000)

Short stories

Real Time: Stories and a reminiscence (2002)

Poetry

St. Cyril Road and Other Poems (Penguin, 2005)

Non fiction

D. H. Lawrence and ‘Difference’: Postcoloniality and the Poetry of the Present (Oxford, 2003)
Small Orange Flags (Seagull, 2003) reviwed

[edit] External Links

‘Surpanakha’ story at The Little Magazine
several articles by Chaudhuri at London Review of Books
The Writers a poem from The Observer

[edit] References

A date with Amit Chaudhuri
Amit Chaudhuri at contemporarywriters.com

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NAME	Chaudhuri, Amit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Contemporary Indian-English novelist
DATE OF BIRTH	1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kolkata, India
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH