Amit Chaudhuri

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Amit Chaudhuri (born 1962 ), is an Indian English author and academic. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, India's highest literary honour, in 2002 for his novel A New World. He is currently Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia. In 2012, Chaudhuri won the Infosys Prize for Humanities-Literary Studies for his imaginative and illuminating writings in literary criticism, which reflect a complex literary sensibility, and great theoretical mastery, along with a probing sense of detail.

Sweet Shop: New and Collected Poems, 1985–2023 by Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri
New York. NYRB Poets. 2023. 184 pages. It is quite possible that with the title Sweet Shop, the Western reader may visualize Amit Chaudhuri luring them into a Western candy shop with…
Sojourn by Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri
New York. New York Review Books. 2022. 144 pages. AMIT CHAUDHURI HAS always been a writer in whose works a place comes alive like a fully delineated character. In his first novel,…
Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music by Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri
New York. New York Review Books. 2021. 253 pages. IF FICTION IS “CREATED,” then nonfiction is surely “found.” Criticism is a hunt for flaws and virtues, history spotted in the wind-mi…
Calcutta: Two Years in the City by Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri
New York. Knopf. 2013. ISBN 9780307270245 In his last work, Lebensanschauung (1918), the German sociologist Georg Simmel articulated a concept of the modern individual as a boundary between b…