Amit Chaudhuri

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

January 2023
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

Spring 2021
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

November 2013
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...