Amit Chaudhuri was born in Calcutta in 1962 and grew up in Bombay. He read English at University College, London, where he took his BA with First Class Honours, and completed his doctorate on critical theory and the poetry of D.H. Lawrence at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Dervorguilla Scholar. He was Creative Arts Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, from 1992-95, and Leverhulme Special Research Fellow at the Faculty of English, Cambridge University, until April 1999, where he taught the Commonwealth and International Literatures paper of the English Tripos.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
Afternoon Raag. Heinemann, 1993
Freedom Song. Picador, 1998; Alfred A. Knopf, 1999
A New World. Picador. 2000.
The Immortals. Picador. 2009.
A strange and sublime address. Penguin, 2012
Odysseus Abroad. 2015 Hamish Hamilton.
Friend of My Youth, 2017, Penguin Random House India
Collected short stories
Real time : stories and reminiscence. Picador. (2002).
Poetry
St. Cyril Road and other poems. Penguin. (2005)
Non-fiction
D. H. Lawrence and ‘difference’ : postcoloniality and the poetry of the present. Oxford University Press. (2003).
Small Orange Flags (Seagull, 2003)
Clearing A Space: Reflections on India, Literature and Culture. Peter Lang. 2008.
Calcutta: Two Years in the City, Union Books (2013)
Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music. New York Review Books. 2021.
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