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“He is, of course, a remarkable intellectual with a great record of literary writing showing a level of sensibility as well as a kind of quiet humanity which is quite rare. It really is quite extraordinary that someone could have had that kind of range that Amit Chaudhuri has in terms of his work and it could be so consistently of the highest quality"

- Amartya Sen

“Amit Chaudhuri has, like Proust, perfected the art of the moment… [he] is a miniaturist, for whom tiny moments become radiant, and for whom the complexities of the fleeting mood uncurl onto the page like a leaf, a petal.”

- Hilary Mantel, New York Review of Books

Amit Chaudhuri was born in Calcutta in 1962 and grew up in Bombay. He was a student at the Cathedral and John Connon School, Bombay, took his first degree, in English, from University College London, and wrote his doctoral dissertation on D H Lawrence’s poetry at Balliol College, Oxford. He is married to Rosinka Chaudhuri, and they have one daughter, Aruna. His father, Nages Chandra Chaudhuri, was the first Indian CEO of Britannia Industrie

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I didn’t realise that Amit had just travelled from Paris, rather than East Anglia where he is a Professor of Contemporary Literature. We meet in Broad Street, punctually at 2.30pm on the third day of Michaelmas term, 2018. He’s just eaten fish and chips at the King’s Arms with his wife, reporting that it was terrific – a tip.

A few minutes later, over a double shot black americano in the Weston Library, he explains that his current gig is a just-begun fellowship at the Columbia Institute of Ideas and Imagination, which is in Montparnasse in Paris. The Institute wants ‘individuals inclined to challenge prevailing intellectual habits.’

But, Chaudhuri adds, ‘arranging the visa was a headache.’ Born in Calcutta and then raised in Bombay until doing a first degree at UCL followed by a DPhil at Oxford (Balliol, 1987), Chaudhuri has stood by his Indian passport as a matter of principle rather than necessity, a luminous detail as it turns out.

A seven-times novelist garlanded with prizes, Chaudhuri is officially in Oxford to launch a book of essays published by Oxford University Press,

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Amit Chaudhuri is the author of seven novels, the latest of which is Friend of My Youth. His most recent book, Finding the Raga, is a work of non-fiction in which he explores his relationship to, and understanding of, North Indian classical music. He is also an essayist, poet, short story writer, singer and composer. James Wood, writing about Chaudhuri in the New Yorker in 2015, said, ‘He has beautifully practiced that “refutation of the spectacular” throughout his career, both as a novelist and as a critic . . . Chaudhuri has made the best case for his aesthetic preferences in his own measured, subtle, light-footed fiction.’ Writing about him in 1993, Wood had said in the Guardian, ‘Chaudhuri writes radiantly exact prose’.

He has written three books of poems: St Cyril Road and other Poems, Sweet Shop and Ramanujan. He has three books of essays: Clearing a Space, Telling Tales and The Origins of Dislike. Among the books he has edited is the Picador/Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature.

Chaudhuri is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and became H