Amit Chaudhuri is a writer and musician. His first novel, A Strange and Sublime Address , is included in Toibin and Callil’s Two Hundred Best Novels of the Last Fifty Years .
His last, The Immortals , was a New Yorker, Boston Globe, and San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year. He is the winner of several awards, including the Commonwealth Literature Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Sahitya Akademi Award. He was the first recipient of the Infosys Prize for Outstanding Contribution to the Humanities in Literary Studies.
He is currently Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia, and is editor of the Picador/ Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
As a musician, he has performed on most flagship cultural programmes on UK radio and television. His latest books include Calcutta: Two Years in the City (non-fiction) and Telling Tales (a collection of essays).
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