Amit Varma

This article is about the writer. For the actor, see Amit Varma (actor).
Amit Varma (extreme right) at the Mumbai Bloggers' Meet

Amit Varma is a writer based in Mumbai. He has worked in advertising, television and journalism, and has written for publications like The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. He was a Managing Editor of Cricinfo India[1] and is now a consultant for them.[2]

He used to write the weekly column Thinking It Through[3][4] for the business newspaper Mint. He also writes the popular blog, India Uncut,[5] which won the Best Indiblog Award at the Indibloggies in 2005[6] and was nominated again in 2006.[7]

In October 2007, Varma won the 2007 Bastiat Prize for Journalism, which aims to honour writers “whose work cleverly and wittily promotes the institutions of the free society”.[8]

In 2008, his first novel, My friend, Sancho was one of the novels nominated to the longlist for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008.[9]

In April 2009, he was named by BusinessWeek magazine in its India's 50 Most Powerful People 2009 list.[10]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Comment is Free - Guardian profile
  2. ↑ About India Uncut
  3. ↑ Thinking It Through
  4. ↑ Thinking It Through discontinued
  5. ↑ India Uncut,
  6. ↑ Indibloggies 2005 Results
  7. ↑ Indibloggies 2006: Nominations for "Indiblog of the Year"
  8. ↑ Indian Journalist Wins 2007 Frederic Bastiat Prize for Journalism
  9. ↑ http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/2008/2008longlist.php
  10. ↑ http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0415_india_most_powerful/49.htm
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