Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri was born in Calcutta and grew up in Bombay. He attended University College London, Balliol College, Oxford and has also been a writer-in-residence at Wolfson College. His novels include A Strange and Sublime Address (1991), which received the 1991 Betty Trask Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, Freedom Song (1998) and A New World (2000), which, that year, was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In addition, he writes short stories, poems and critical essays in English. Chaudhuri is also an acclaimed Indian classical musician. He is currently a creative writing tutor at the University of East Anglia.