About Amit Chaudhuri
Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, and winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Sahitya Akademi award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction; a critic who won the inaugural Infosys Prize for the Humanities in Literary Studies; a writer of non-fiction whose
Finding the Raga, Penguin Hamish Hamilton, 2021, received the James Tait Black Prize; a poet whose
Sweet Shop: New and Selected Poems is published in the USA, the UK, and India in October in the NYRB Poets series; and a musician and composer who received the Sangeet Samman from the West Bengal government for his contribution to classical music, performed at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, on BBC television’s Review Show, and whose version of ‘Summertime’ is included in BBC 4’s documentary Gershwin’s Summertime: The Song that Conquered the World. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and is editor of
literaryactivism.com.
