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.

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 firs…
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, histo…
Calcutta: Two Years in the City by Amit Chaudhuri

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