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Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature

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  • 672

    Pages
  • 9780330343640

    ISBN
  • 13 mm

    Width
  • 4 mm

    Height
  • 427 gram

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  • PAPERBACK

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  • 7 JUNE 2002

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    This is a definitive anthology that vividly reveals the greatest writers from the Indian continent. Spanning 150 years, this collection of fiction and non-fiction shatters many contemporary illusions about Indian writing. Translations sit alongside writing in English, bringing to light the most engaging writers from modern India, including R.K. Narayan, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, This is a definitive anthology that vividly reveals the greatest writers from the Indian continent. Spanning 150 years, this collection of fiction and non-fiction shatters many contemporary illusions about Indian writing. Translations sit alongside writing in English, bringing to light the most engaging writers from modern India,...  Read More

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    Amit Chaudhuri

    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. He was on the faculty of the School of the Arts, Columbia University, for the Fall semester, 2002. He was appointed Samuel Fischer Guest Professor of Literature at Free University, Berlin, for the winter term 2005.

    He is now Professor in Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia. He was made Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009.