Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri is the author of eight novels as well as acclaimed works of non-fiction, poetry, essays and short story collections. He has received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Betty Trask Prize, the Encore Prize, the LA Times Book Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and the Sahitya Akademi Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is a vocalist in the North Indian classical tradition and a composer and performer in a celebrated project that brings together different musical traditions.