Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, essayist, poet, and musician. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in India. He has written eight novels, the latest of which is Sojourn. Among his other works are books of essays, including Incompleteness: New and Selected Essays, 1999–2023; a study of D. H. Lawrence's poetry; a book of short stories, Real Time; two works of nonfiction, including Finding the Raga; and several volumes of poetry. Formerly a professor of contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia, Chaudhuri is now a professor of creative writing and the director of the Centre for the Creative and the Critical at Ashoka University, as well as the editor of literaryactivism.com. He has made several recordings of Indian classical and experimental music, and has been awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the Indian government's Sahitya Akademi Award, and the James Tait Black Prize.