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Amit Chaudhuri


August 2022

  • People walking on street, Berlin<br>People walking on street, blur.

    Sojourn by Amit Chaudhuri review – a delirious, disorienting vision of Berlin

    The writer’s intriguing, uneven novel follows an academic as he meanders through the streets of the city and in and out of reality

November 2021

  • booksellers in College Street, Kolkata.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about Calcutta

    From Jhumpa Lahiri to Amit Chaudhuri, these novels and histories portray a teeming, paradoxical city – and its diaspora – that is a world unto itself

April 2021

  • Amit Chaudhuri

    Finding the Raga by Amit Chaudhuri – a passion for Indian music

  • Saoirse Ronan in the film version of Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn (2015).

    Top 10s
    Top 10 homecomings in fiction

October 2019

  • Amit Chaudhuri

    A new India is emerging, and it is a country ruled by fear

    Amit Chaudhuri
    Modi’s vision for the country is one that stifles dissent and difference, says the author and academic Amit Chaudhuri

September 2019

  • Margaret Atwood

    The Guardian view on Margaret Atwood and the Booker: a testament to fiction

    Editorial: The prize has come in for justified criticism, its rules are imperfect. But this year’s authors are an exciting prospect

September 2018

  • Amit Chaudhuri

    Books that made me
    Amit Chaudhuri: ‘All non-western literature is wilfully underrated’

    The author on the importance of DH Lawrence, how Alice Munro inspired him, and early memories of reading Ladybird books in Bombay

April 2018

  • Susie Boyt note books

    ‘Messy attics of the mind’: what’s inside a writer’s notebook?

    Scribbled observations, dinner party conversations, flashes of perception ... inspired by Henry James’s jottings, Paul Theroux, Susie Boyt and Amit Chaudhuri share their note-taking habits

August 2017

  • India Mumbai Bombay street scene<br>BFP89E India Mumbai Bombay street scene

    Friend of My Youth by Amit Chaudhuri review – autofiction examined

    ‘I undermine the genre I work with – or for’ says the narrator. But who is he?

May 2017

  • The Royal Opera's Production Of Ravi Shankar's Sukanya At The Curve Theatre, Leicester<br>LEICESTER, ENGLAND - MAY 10: Rukmini Vijayakumar (Dancer) with artists of the company in the Royal Opera's production of Ravi Shankar's Sukanya directed bySuba Das and conducted by David Murphy at The Curve Theatre on May 10, 2017 in Leicester, England. (Photo by Robbie Jack/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Sukanya review – Ravi Shankar's opera is both sublime and ridiculous

    This new opera that blends the western form and Hindustani classical music makes for a ravishing spectacle but its music and libretto fail to consistently convince

November 2016

  • Bob Dylan

    Beyond Bob Dylan: authors, poets and musicians pick their favourite songwriter

    Dylan’s Nobel prize win sparked a debate about lyrics as literature. Here, Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy, Johnny Marr, Naomi Alderman and others nominate songwriters whose verse has the power of poetry

September 2016

  • Anoushka, Ravi and Sukanya Shankar, supplied by Albion Media

    Ravi Shankar opera to get posthumous world premiere

  • JILL CALDER for REVIEW 160910 How to write feature

    My best writing tip by William Boyd, Jeanette Winterson, Amit Chaudhuri and more

October 2015

  • Amit Chaudhuri.

    Amit Chaudhuri review – joining the dots between rock and raga

    The Bengali singer and author explores the connections between Hindustani classical ragas and Western rock with some brilliant – and some banal – results

July 2015

  • Amit Chaudhuri

    Calcutta's architecture is unique. Its destruction is a disaster for the city

    Amit Chaudhuri
    Author and critic Amit Chaudhuri is spearheading a campaign to preserve the Bengali houses of his birthplace. He explains why reconnecting with the city’s cosmopolitan architectural heritage is crucial to Calcutta’s future

March 2015

  • A detail from William Russell Flint's illustration of Penelope recognising Odysseus

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Mythical figures with Amit Chaudhuri and Katrine Marçal – books podcast

    We go in search of heroes with Amit Chaudhuri’s reworking of the Odyssey and Katrine Marçal’s deconstruction of economic myth

February 2015

  • odysseus abroad review

    Odysseus Abroad by Amit Chaudhuri review – journeys within journeys

    A young student wanders and wonders through London in Amit Chaudhuri’s engrossing tale of homesickness and belonging
  • Amit Chaudhuri

    Amit Chaudhuri: ‘I use the things that real memoirists throw out’

    The books interview: The author and musician on India, Joni Mitchell and his homage to Joyce. By Nicholas Wroe
  • Chaudhuri

    Odysseus Abroad by Amit Chaudhuri review – audaciously redraws the modernist map

    An Indian uncle and nephew share a summer’s day in London in this homage to Homer and Joyce, writes Neel Mukherjee

October 2013

  • Virginia Woolf

    Amit Chaudhuri: travelling between genres

    Amit Chaudhuri on what can essays and non-fiction can achieve that fiction can't?
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