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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 was Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia from 2006 to 2021, [1] Since 2020, he has been at Ashoka University , India, as Professor of Creative Writing and, since 2021, is also ...
Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, singer and music composer. Visit to know about his bio, interviews, videos, Writings and Talks.
‘Sweet Shop’: Amit Chaudhuri (re)opens intimate, everyday spaces for English poetry from India
English poetry is considered. What made her uncomfortable, Hasan writes, was that the poet’s voice was “too close at hand as well as unsettl...
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1st FIR filed under new criminal laws in Madhya Pradesh, Delhi Police file one too
The FIR itself was registered under section 173 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, departing...
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Amit Chaudhuri achieved critical acclaim with his first book, A Strange and Sublime Address (1991). Moving between Calcutta and Bombay, A Strange and Sublime Address is structured around nine evocative tales.
Jul 31, 2008 · Amit Chaudhuri is one of the most influential critics of his generation. His monograph, D H Lawrence and ‘Difference’ , was called a ‘classic’ by Tom Paulin in his preface to the book, and a ‘path-breaking work’ by Terry Eagleton in the London Review of Books.
Nov 17, 2022 · Author and Hindustani classical singer Amit Chaudhuri won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography in August 2022 for his memoir, Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on...
Sep 24, 2023 · ‘On Being Indian’: Amit Chaudhuri on the idea of the thinking individual rooted in today’s India. Chaudhuri’s new book is a call to Indians to recover and reaffirm a legacy of rationality...
Aug 24, 2019 · Amit Chaudhuri talks about his 1993 novel, ‘Afternoon Raag’, which now has a 25th anniversary edition with an introduction by James Wood.
Interview: Amit Chaudhuri, Author, Finding the Raga – “Which way you are going to turn is unknown to you”. The title of your book Finding the Raga signals a kind of quest. It reads a bit ...
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.
Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, essayist, poet, a composer in experimental music, and an Indian classical musician. He is the author of seven novels, a collection of poetry, and two collections of essays on literature and culture.
