A Conversation with Amit Chaudhuri

hosted by: Piyali Bhattacharya
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Amit Chaudhuri is the author of eight novels, including, most recently, Sojourn. Among his other published works are collections of short stories, poetry, and essays, as well as the nonfiction Calcutta, a critical study of D. H. Lawrence’s poetry, and a work of memoir and criticism about Indian classical music, Finding the Raga. He has received the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Betty Trask Award, the Encore Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Sahitya Akademi Award, among other accolades. Chaudhuri is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and holds the titles of Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia in England and Professor of Creative Writing at Ashoka University in India. In addition, he is a singer in the North Indian classical tradition and a composer and performer in a project that brings together the raga, blues, and jazz with a variety of other musical traditions. In 2017 he received the Sangeet Samman from the government of West Bengal for his contribution to Indian classical music. Chaudhuri’s music has been regularly featured on radio and television; his version of “Summertime” was featured on the BBC 4 documentary Gershwin’s Summertime: The Song That Conquered the World.

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