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| name = Amitabha Bagchi<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age| 1974}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Delhi]], India<br />
| occupation = Author<br />
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| genre = Fiction and nonfiction<br />
| notableworks = [[Half the Night is Gone]] <br/> This Place<br />
| awards = [[DSC Prize for South Asian Literature]] (2019) <br />
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'''Amitabha Bagchi''' is an Indian author, who was awarded [[DSC Prize for South Asian Literature]] in 2019<ref>{{Cite web |title=Amitabha Bagchi bags literary award |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/amitabha-bagchi-bags-literary-award/cid/1728248 |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=The Telegraph}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2019-12-16 |title=Amitabha Bagchi Wins The DSC Prize For South Asian Literature 2019 |url=https://www.dscprize.com/post/amitabha-bagchi-wins-the-dsc-prize-for-south-asian-literature-2019 |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=The DSC prize |language=en}}</ref> and shortlisted for [[JCB Prize for Literature]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Half the Night is Gone - Amitabha Bagchi |url=https://www.thejcbprize.org/longlist2018/index/e9a172f1-bbbf-4f75-aee5-0f9857a0f4b7 |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=JCB Prize}}</ref> and [[The Hindu Literary Prize]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=2018-10-14 |title=The Hindu Prize 2018 shortlists announced |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/the-hindu-prize-2018-shortlists-announced/article25222576.ece |access-date=2022-10-21 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref> for his novel ''[[Half the Night is Gone]]''. He is the author of five [[Novel|novels]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-09-17 |title=Amitabha Bagchi |url=https://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/speaker/amitabha-bagchi |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=Jaipur Literature Festival |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
He was born in 1974 in Delhi and is currently serving as [[Professor]] of [[Computer science]] in [[IIT Delhi]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Amitabh Bagchi |url=https://harpercollins.co.in/author-details/amitabh-bagchi/ |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=HarperCollins Publishers India}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> He was awarded the [[DSC Prize for South Asian Literature]] at the [[Nepal Literature Festival]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Amitabha Bagchi wins DSC Prize, $25,000 for 'Half The Night Is Gone', Kanak Dixit congratulates |work=The Economic Times |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/amitabha-bagchi-wins-dsc-prize-25000-for-half-the-night-is-gone-kanak-dixit-congratulates/articleshow/72762160.cms |access-date=2022-10-18}}</ref><br />
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== Books ==<br />
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Amitabha Bagchi has published five novels <ref>{{Cite web |title=Amitabh Bagchi Books |url=https://www.thehindu.com/authors/hatred-is-created-by-sucking-poetry-out-of-our-lives/article30356335.ece|website=The Hindu, 22 December 2019}}</ref> <br />
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* ''Above Average'' (2007)<br />
* ''The Householder'' (2012)<br />
* ''This Place'' (2013)<br />
* ''[[Half the Night is Gone]]'' (2018)<br />
* ''Unknown City'' (2025)<br />
In addition, he has also translated a volume of poems by the Urdu poet [[Munir Niazi]]<br />
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* ''Lost Paradise: Selected Ghazals of Muneer Niazi'' (2022)<br />
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