Prof. Amit Chaudhuri
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia
Amit Chaudhuri graduated from University College, London, and was a research student at Balliol College, Oxford. He was later Creative Arts Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.
Author of seven novels, his works of fiction include A Strange and Sublime Address (1991), Afternoon Raag (1993), Freedom Song (1998), A New World (2000), Real Time (2002) The Immortals (2009), Odysseus Abroad (2013), and Friend of My Youth (2017).
His critical work includes D. H. Lawrence and 'Difference': Postcoloniality and the Poetry of the Present (2003), Clearing a Space (2008), and the forthcoming The Origins of Dislike (2018). He has one collection of poetry, St. Cyril Road and Other Poems (2005), and has edited various anthologies, including The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature (2001). His major work of non-fiction, Calcutta: Two Years in the City, was published in 2013, as was his book of essays, Telling Tales.
Amit Chaudhuri won the inaugural 2012 Infosys Prize in Humanities in Literary Studies for his 'imaginative and illuminating writings in literary criticism'. He has received several awards such as the Commonwealth Writers Prize (1991), the UK’s Society of Authors’ Betty Trask Award for best first novel (1991), the Society of Authors’ Encore Prize for Best Second Novel (1993), the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2000), the Sahitya Akademi award (2002), and the West Bengal Government’s Rabindra Puraskar (2012) for his writings on Tagore.