Friend of My Youth

Amit Chaudhuri is the author of eight novels, including Sojourn and Friend of My Youth, as well as four books of essays, three books of poems, two works of non-fiction, a collection of short stories, and a critical study of D. H. Lawrence's poetry. He has received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Betty Trask Prize, the Encore Prize, the LA Times Book Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and the Sahitya Akademi Award, among other accolades. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia from 2006 until 2021, and he is Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Centre for the Creative and the Critical, Ashoka University. He edits literaryactivism.com. He is a vocalist in the North Indian classical tradition and a composer and performer in a celebrated project that brings together different musical traditions.