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=                           Amit Chaudhuri                           =
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                            Introduction
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Amit Chaudhuri (born 15 May 1962) is a novelist, poet, essayist,
literary critic, editor, singer, and music composer from India. He is
currently a professor of creative writing at Ashoka University.

He was previously professor of contemporary literature at the
University of East Anglia from 2006 to 2021. In 2013, he was awarded
the Infosys Prize for outstanding contribution to the humanities in
Literary Studies

In January 2018, Chaudhuri began writing a series for 'The Paris
Review' titled 'The Moment'. He also wrote an occasional column,
"Telling Tales", for 'The Telegraph'.


                           Personal life
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Amit Chaudhuri was born in Calcutta (renamed Kolkata) in 1962 and grew
up in Bombay (renamed Mumbai).  He took his first degree in English
literature from University College London, and wrote his doctoral
dissertation on D. H. Lawrence's poetry at Balliol College, Oxford.

He is married to Rosinka Chaudhuri, Professor of Cultural Studies and
Director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
(CSSSC).


                               Music
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Chaudhuri is a singer in the North Indian classical tradition, who has
performed internationally. He learned singing from his mother, Bijoya
Chaudhuri, and from the late Pandit Govind Prasad Jaipurwale of the
Kunwar Shyam gharana


                         Awards and honours
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*1991 Betty Trask Award and Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First
Book for 'A Strange and Sublime Address'
*1994 Encore Award and Southern Arts Literature Prize, 'Afternoon
Raag'
*2009 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
*2012 Infosys Prize for the Humanities in Literary Studies
*2020 Honorary Fellow, Modern Language Association (MLA)
*2022 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Biography, 'Finding the Raga.'


Novels
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*'A strange and sublime address'. Penguin, 1991,
*'Afternoon Raag'. Heinemann, 1993,  The book won the Encore Award.
The 25th anniversary edition was published by Penguin Random House
India in 2019 with a foreword by James Wood.
*'Freedom Song'. Picador, 1998; Alfred A. Knopf, 1999,
[http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0599/chaudhuri/excerpt.html
excerpt]
*; Random House Digital, Inc., 2002,
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* Friend of My Youth, 2017, Penguin Random House India
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Libretto
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* 'Sukanya', the only opera by Ravi Shankar


Non-fiction
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*'Small Orange Flags' (Seagull, 2003)
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* 'Calcutta: Two Years in the City', Union Books (2013)
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Edited anthologies
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*'Memory's Gold: Writings on Calcutta' (2008)


Dissertation
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Chaudhuri's D.Phil. dissertation at Oxford was published by Clarendon
Press as a monograph titled 'D.H. Lawrence and Difference' in 2003. It
was called a "classic" by Tom Paulin in his preface to the book; Terry
Eagleton wrote in the 'London Review of Books' that it is "a fine
book, which if it had expanded its scope and dug rather deeper might
even have been even better".


                              See also
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* List of Indian writers


                           External links
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*
*[https://twitter.com/AmitChaudhuri Amit Chaudhuri] at Twitter
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*[https://www.munzinger.de/search/go/document.jsp?id=18000000569 Amit
Chaudhuri] at the Munzinger-Archiv
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200716090127/https://lareviewofbooks.org/author-page/amit-chaudhuri/
Amit Chaudhuri] at the 'Los Angeles Review of Books'
*[http://www.littlemag.com/mar-apr01/amit.html "Surpanakha"], story at
'The Little Magazine'
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20031116103501/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2003/11/02/stories/2003110200200100.htm
"An unlikely radical"], 'The Hindu'
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040314033740/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040116/asp/calcutta/story_2787444.asp
"A date with Amit Chaudhuri"], 'The Telegraph'


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