Amit Chaudhuri
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Amit Chaudhuri (born 1962 ), is an Indian English author and academic. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, India's highest literary honour, in 2002 for his novel A New World. He is currently Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.[1] In 2012, Chaudhuri won the Infosys Prize for Humanities-Literary Studies for his imaginative and illuminating writings in literary criticism, which reflect a complex literary sensibility, and great theoretical mastery, along with a probing sense of detail.
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Early life
Amit Chaudhuri grew up in Bombay. He attended University College London, Balliol College, Oxford and has also been Creative Arts Fellow at Wolfson College.[citation needed]
Career
He was Leverhulme Fellow at Cambridge University, a Visiting Professor at Columbia University, and Samuel Fischer Guest Professor of Literature at Freie Universität Berlin.[citation needed]
He has written numerous novels, short stories, poems and critical essays in English. His novels have won several major awards and he has received international critical acclaim. His latest book is The Immortals, a novel about music in the modern world. 2008 saw the publication of Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature and Culture, bringing together his major work as a critic. A collection of poems entitled St. Cyril Road and Other Poems appeared in 2005, and in 2001 he edited the influential The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature. His study of D.H. Lawrence's poetry, D.H. Lawrence and 'Difference': Postcoloniality and the Poetry of the Present, was called 'truly groundbreaking' by Terry Eagleton in the London Review of Books.[2] He writes frequently for The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Guardian. His work has appeared in Granta, The New Left Review, The Dublin Review, Bricks, n+1, Caravan and many other periodicals.[3]
Amit Chaudhuri is also an Indian classical musician, and singer and composer of Indo-Western experimental music, with an album from each of these genres. His project in experimental music,This is not Fusion, combines the raga, jazz, the blues, rock, techno, disco, and the Indian pop. A second album, Found Music, was released by EMI in 2011.[citation needed]
On 18 March 2008, he was included in the panel for the Man Booker International Prize 2008, alongside writer Jane Smiley and essayist Andrey Kurkov. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[citation needed]
Personal life
Chaudhuri is married to Rosinka Chaudhuri, Professor in Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. She is the daughter of Shiva Ranjan and Sreelata Khastgir and granddaughter of Satish Ranjan Khastgir, a noted physicist, and elder brother of painter and art educator Sudhir Rajan Khastgir[4]
Awards and honours
- 1991 Betty Trask Award and Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book for A Strange and Sublime Address
- 1994 Encore Award, winner for Afternoon Raag
- 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Freedom Song
- 2002 Sahitya Akademi Award, winner for A New World
- 2011 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, shortlisted for The Immortals
- 2012 Rabindra Puraskar for On Tagore
- 2012 Infosys Prize for contemporary Literature.
- 2015 The Hindu Literary Prize, shortlist for Odysseus Abroad.[5]
Bibliography
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Novels
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- Afternoon Raag. Heinemann, 1993, ISBN 978-0-434-12349-0
- Freedom Song. Picador, 1998; Alfred A. Knopf, 1999, ISBN 978-0-375-40427-6 excerpt
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Collected short stories
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Poetry
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Non fiction
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- Small Orange Flags (Seagull, 2003) reviewed
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- Calcutta: Two Years in the City, Union Books (2013)
Anthologies edited
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- Memory's Gold: Writings on Calcutta (2008)
Critical studies and reviews
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Reprints
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Notes
- ↑ Amit Chaudhuri at contemporary writers.com
- ↑ several articles by Chaudhuri at London Review of Books
- ↑ Amit Chaudhuri. The Guardian
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External links
- ‘Surpanakha’ story at The Little Magazine
- The Writers a poem from The Observer
- "An unlikely radical", The Hindu
- A date with Amit Chaudhuri
- Interviews
- Interview with Amit Chaudhuri, Oxonian Review, April 2009
- "I Wish Indian Writing in English Were Less Triumphant" Deutsche Welle
- Transcript of interview with Ramona Koval, The Book Show, ABC Radio National, 20 November 2007
- EngvarB from August 2014
- Use dmy dates from August 2014
- Articles with unsourced statements from September 2014
- Incomplete lists from May 2015
- 1962 births
- Bengali people
- Bengali Hindus
- People from Kolkata
- Alumni of University College London
- Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
- English-language writers from India
- Indian male novelists
- Indian essayists
- Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in English
- Academics of the University of East Anglia
- Living people
- Recipients of the Infosys Prize
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
- Fellows of Wolfson College, Oxford
- Indian emigrants to the United Kingdom
- Male essayists