Amit Chaudhuri

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

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 2001 he edited "The Picador 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.

On March 18, 2008, he was included in the panel for the Man Booker International Prize 2009, alongside writer Jane Smiley and essayist Andrey Kurkov.

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) [http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0599/chaudhuri/excerpt.html 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) [http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/lr/2003/11/02/stories/2003110200200100.htm reviewed]

External links

* [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2007/2092789.htm] Transcript of interview with Ramona Koval, The Book Show, ABC Radio National, 20 Novembver 2007
* [http://www.littlemag.com/mar-apr01/amit.html ‘Surpanakha’] story at The Little Magazine
* [http://www.lrb.co.uk/contribhome.php?get=chau01 several articles] by Chaudhuri at London Review of Books
* [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1805063,00.html The Writers] a poem from The Observer

References

* [http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040116/asp/calcutta/story_2787444.asp A date with Amit Chaudhuri]
* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth21 Amit Chaudhuri] at contemporarywriters.com

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