Amit Chaudhuri

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.

Amit Chaudhuri studied at Balliol College, University College London and Elphinstone College. The recorded working language is English. Employment is recorded with University of East Anglia and Ashoka University. Distinctions recorded are Sahitya Akademi Award, Infosys Prize, Betty Trask Award and Encore Award.

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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).

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.

• 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, excerpt • Random House Digital, Inc., 2002, * * • Friend of My Youth, 2017, Penguin Random House India *

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• Sukanya, the only opera by Ravi Shankar

* • Small Orange Flags (Seagull, 2003) reviewed * • Calcutta: Two Years in the City, Union Books (2013) *

* • Memory's Gold: Writings on Calcutta (2008)

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".