AMIT CHAUDHURI

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

Contents

Life

Awards

Works

External Links

References

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.

Awards

★ 1991 Betty Trask Award and Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book for ''A Strange and Sublime Address''

★ 1994 Encore Award for ''Afternoon Raag''

★ 2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for ''A New World''

★ 2002 Sahitya Akademi Award for ''A New World''

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

External Links

★ ‘Surpanakha’ story at The Little Magazine

★ several articles by Chaudhuri at London Review of Books

★ The Writers a poem from The Observer

References

★ A date with Amit Chaudhuri

★ Amit Chaudhuri at contemporarywriters.com
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