Physical
AvailableLanguage | English |
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ISBN-10 | 0-330-35106-0 |
No of pages | 200 |
Book Publisher | Picador |
Published Date | 30 Nov -0001 |
Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, essayist, poet and musician. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in Kolkata and the United Kingdom, where he is professor of contemporary literature at University of East Anglia.
He has written seven novels, of which Friend of My Youth is the latest. Among Chaudhuri's other works are three books of essays, the most recent of which is The Origins of Dislike; a study of D.H.
Lawrence's poetry; a book of short stories, Real Time; a work of non-fiction, Calcutta: Two Years in the City; and a volume of poetry.
He has made several recordings of Indian classical and experimental music. He has received many awards for his fiction and criticism, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the Sahitya Akademie Award and the inaugural Infosys Prize for the Humanities.
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