Upamanyu Chatterjee

Upamanyu Chatterjee ( born 1959 in Patna, Bihar ) is an Indian- Bengali writer and civil servant, who has become for his work playing in the environment of the Indian administrative authorities, known especially for his novel " English, August ".

Chatterjee attended St. Xavier 's School and St. Stephen 's College in Delhi. In 1983 he began his work in Indian Administrative Service ( Maharashtra cadre ).

Work

Chatterjee has some short stories written, of which The Assassination of Indira Gandhi and Watching Them are particularly noteworthy. His bestselling English, August: An Indian Story ( with subsequent film version ) was published in 1988 and has since been published in increasing circulation. A review in the British magazine Punch describes the book as " wonderfully written [ ... ], English, August ' is a fantastically intelligent and entertaining novel, especially for anyone who is curious about the presence of India ." The novel tells the story of Agastya Sen, a young, Westernized Indian officials whose fantasies of women, literature, and drugs can be determined. This lively story of the young officers about the " real life of India", is reassigned to the small provincial town Madna, is a " funny, ironic twist observed story of Agastya Sen's year in the far province," as one reviewer in the British Observer reported.

End of 2000, The Mammaries of the Welfare State, successor to English, August, published. His most recent novel, Weight Loss, a black comedy that was released in 2006.

Anjana Sharma compares Upamayus vision of humanity with William Butler Yeats. She writes: " Although eighty years apart and with different cultural and civilizing background as well as differences in craft and temperament, share Yeats and Chatterjee, an identical vision of a de -centered and de - natured world." Mukul Dishit argues that Chatterjee for the first time on a "new class " Westernized, large urban Indians concentrated that has been ignored in the local as well as in the English Fiction of India. He explains that Chatterjee's imagination is as rich as the Kafka; his sense of tragedy as fine as the Camus and his understanding of the Absurd - comic of life on par with Milan Kundera and Saul Bellow.

Awards

  • Officier des Arts et des Lettres, Award of the French government
  • Sahitya Akademi Award, in 2000 for "The Mammaries of the Welfare State "

Works

  • English, August. An Indian story. Faber and Faber, London, 1988, ISBN 0-571-15101-9, paperback editions: Penguin Books India, New Delhi 1998, ISBN 0-14-027811-7; NYRB Classics, New York 2006, ISBN 1-590-17179-9 - hailed as the authoritative Indian coming-of -age big-city novel
  • The Mammaries of the Welfare State. Viking, New Delhi and Others 2000, ISBN 0-670-87934-7; Paperback edition: Penguin Books India, New Delhi 2001, ISBN 0-14-027245-3 - sequel to English, August
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