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	* [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] in 1991 <ref>[http://www.sahitya-akademi.org/sahitya-akademi/awa10304.htm#english Award for writing in English in 1991] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070713025744/http://www.sahitya-akademi.org/sahitya-akademi/awa10304.htm#english \|date=13 July 2007 }} accessed July 2007</ref>		* [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] in 1991 <ref>[http://www.sahitya-akademi.org/sahitya-akademi/awa10304.htm#english Award for writing in English in 1991] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070713025744/http://www.sahitya-akademi.org/sahitya-akademi/awa10304.htm#english \|date=13 July 2007 }} accessed July 2007</ref>
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	==List of works==		==List of works==

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	* [https://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/iallansealy.html I Allan Sealy] at The South Asian Literary Recordings Project, Library of Congress; New Delhi Office, India		* [https://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/iallansealy.html I Allan Sealy] at The South Asian Literary Recordings Project, Library of Congress; New Delhi Office, India
	* [https://www.unz.org/Author/SealyIAllan I Allan Sealy] at the [[Unz Review]]

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	* ''The Small Wild Goose Pagoda: An Almanack'' (New Delhi: Aleph, 2014, 300pp) {{ISBN\|978-9383064489}}.		* ''The Small Wild Goose Pagoda: An Almanack'' (New Delhi: Aleph, 2014, 300pp) {{ISBN\|978-9383064489}}.
	* ''Zelaldinus: A Masque'' (New Delhi: Aleph/Almost Island, 2017, 168pp) {{ISBN\|978-9386021076}}.		* ''Zelaldinus: A Masque'' (New Delhi: Aleph/Almost Island, 2017, 168pp) {{ISBN\|978-9386021076}}.
			* ''Asoca: A Sutra'' (New Delhi: Penguin Random House, 2021, 392pp) {{ISBN\|978-9354920639}}.

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'''Irwin Allan Sealy''' (born 1951) is an Indian writer. His novel ''The Everest Hotel: A Calendar'' was shortlisted for the 1998 [[Man Booker Prize|Booker prize]].<ref name=mb>[http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,919787,00.html ''Puppets on a String'' Mithu Banerji in the Observer 23 March 2003 Guardian Unlimited] accessed June 2007</ref>

==Biography==
Allan was born in [[Allahabad]] and he went to [[La Martiniere Lucknow|La Martiniere School]] in Lucknow and then on to [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi|St. Stephen's College, Delhi University]].<ref name="sscalums">{{cite web
|last=St. Stephen's College
|first=Delhi
|date=2000-08-01
|url=http://www.ststephens.edu/StStephens/httpdocs/alumni/hof.htm
|title=Distinguished Alumni
|publisher=St. Stephen's College, Delhi
|access-date=2007-06-24
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928051504/http://www.ststephens.edu/StStephens/httpdocs/alumni/hof.htm
|archive-date=2007-09-28
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> He has worked in Canada, the USA, New Zealand and Australia.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}

His first novel ''The Trotter Nama'' was published in 1988 and tells the story of seven generations of an Anglo-Indian family.<ref>{{Cite web|title=I. Allan Sealy -- English Writer: The South Asian Literary Recordings Project (Library of Congress New Delhi Office)|url=https://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/iallansealy.html#:~:text=Sealy%27s%20first%20novel,%20The%20Trotter,the%20Booker%20Prize%20in%201998.|access-date=2020-07-20|website=www.loc.gov}}</ref>

He now lives in [[Dehradun]], [[Uttarakhand]].{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}

==Awards==
* [[Commonwealth Writers' Prize]], Best First Book, Europe and South Asia, in 1989
* [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] in 1991 <ref>[http://www.sahitya-akademi.org/sahitya-akademi/awa10304.htm#english Award for writing in English in 1991] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070713025744/http://www.sahitya-akademi.org/sahitya-akademi/awa10304.htm#english |date=13 July 2007 }} accessed July 2007</ref>
* [[Vodafone Crossword Book Award|Crossword Book Award]] in 1998
* [[Padma Shri]] in 2012<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref>

==List of works==
* ''The Trotter-Nama: A Chronicle'', (New York: Knopf, 1988; London: Penguin Books, 1990; New York: Viking Penguin, 1990) {{ISBN|0-14-010210-8}}.
* ''Hero: A Fable'', (London: Secker and Warburg, 1991, 288pp) {{ISBN|0-436-44478-X}}.
* ''From Yukon to Yukatan: a Western Journey'', (London: Secker & Warburg, 1994., 323pp) {{ISBN|0-436-44479-8}}.
* ''The Everest Hotel: A Calendar'', (London: Doubleday, 1998, 331pp) {{ISBN|0-385-41033-6}}.
* ''The Brainfever Bird'', (London: Picador, 2003, 320pp) {{ISBN|0-330-41143-8}}.
* ''Red: An Alphabet'' (London: Picador, 2006, 343pp) {{ISBN|0-330-41147-0}}.
* ''The Small Wild Goose Pagoda: An Almanack'' (New Delhi: Aleph, 2014, 300pp) {{ISBN|978-9383064489}}.
* ''Zelaldinus: A Masque'' (New Delhi: Aleph/Almost Island, 2017, 168pp) {{ISBN|978-9386021076}}.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Isfdb name|274024}}
* [https://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/iallansealy.html I Allan Sealy] at The South Asian Literary Recordings Project, Library of Congress; New Delhi Office, India
* [https://www.unz.org/Author/SealyIAllan I Allan Sealy] at the [[Unz Review]]

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