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Amit Chaudhuri


India (b.1962)

Amit Chaudhuri was born in Calcutta in 1962, and grew up in Bombay. He read English at University College, London, where he took his BA with First Class Honours, and completed his doctorate on critical theory and the poetry of D.H. Lawrence at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Dervorguilla Scholar. He was Creative Arts Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, from 1992-95, and Leverhulme Special Research Fellow at the Faculty of English, Cambridge University, until April 1999, where he taught the Commonwealth and International Literatures paper of the English Tripos. He was on the faculty of the School of the Arts, Columbia University, for the Fall semester, 2002. He was appointed Samuel Fischer Guest Professor of Literature at Free University, Berlin, for the winter term 2005. He is now Professor in Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.
 

Awards: LA Times (1999), RSL (1994), SoA (1991)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Afternoon Raag (1993)
   Freedom Song (1998)
   A New World (2000)
   The Immortals (2009)
   Odysseus Abroad (2014)
   Friend of My Youth (2017)
   Sojourn (2022)
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Collections
   A Strange and Sublime Address (1991)
   Real Time (2002)
   St. Cyril Road and Other Poems (poems) (2005)
   Sweet Shop (poems) (2019)
   Ramanujan (poems) (2021)
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Anthologies edited
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Awards
1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction : Freedom Song: Three Novels
1994 Encore Award : Afternoon Raag
1991 Betty Trask Prize : A Strange and Sublime Address

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