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'''Arun Joshi''' (1939-1993) was an [[India]]n writer. He is known for his novels ''The Strange Case of Billy Biswas'' and ''The Apprentice''. He won the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] for his novel ''[[The Last Labyrinth]]'' in 1982.<ref name=Hindu1>{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/the-strange-case-of-arun-joshi/article4465223.ece |title=The strange case of Arun Joshi |first=Aditya | last=Sudarshan |newspaper=The Hindu |accessdate=14 February 2014}}</ref> His novels have characters who are urban, English speaking and disturbed for some reason.<ref name=Hindu1 /> According to one commentator, "The shallowness of middle class society is not for him a point of rhetoric, intended to show off his own enlightened superiority, but a theme to be explored with actual concern."<ref name=Hindu1 />

==Life==

Arun Joshi was raised in [[Varanasi]], Uttar Pradesh, where his father [[A C Joshi]] was Vice Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ashvamegh.net/existential-angst-in-the-novels-of-arun-joshi/ |title=Existential Angst in The Novels of Arun Joshi |author=Dr. Anjan Kumar |publisher=Asvameg |accessdate=17 August 2016}}</ref>

On returning to India, he began working at [[Delhi Cloth & General Mills]], North India's first textile factory and among the earliest joint-stock companies of the country, as chief of its recruitment and training department. He married Rukmini Lal, a daughter of a shareholder. He resigned from D.C.M. in 1965 while continuing to be the executive director of Shri Ram Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources in Delhi.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6ncjUySX-BsC&q=Arun+Joshi+Shri+ram+industrial&pg=PA32 |title=The Novels of Arun Joshi A Critical Study |author=Dr. Shankar Kumar |year=2003 |publisher=Atlantic|isbn=9788126902088 |accessdate=17 August 2016}}</ref>

Joshi lived a reclusive life and generally avoided publicity.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Prasad |first1=Madhusudan |title=Arun Joshi - The Novelist |journal=Indian Literature |year=1981 |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=103–114 |jstor=23330214 }}</ref> He published locally with Orient Paperbacks. Even though multi-national publishers like [[Penguin Group|Penguin]] had entered the publishing space in India, Arun Joshi stuck with Orient all his life.

== The Foreigner ==
''The Foreigner'' was published in 1968.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D_-IDAEACAAJ |title=The Fictional World of Arun Joshi: Paradigm Shift in Values |author=Dr. Abnish Singh Chauhan |year=2016 |publisher=Authorspress|isbn=9789352071128 |accessdate=20 May 2020}}</ref>

== The Strange Case of Billy Biswas ==
''The Strange Case of Billy Biswas'' was written in 1971 and tells the story of a US returned Indian named Billy Biswas.<ref name=Hindu1 />

==Works==
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===Novels===
*''The Foreigner, 1968''
*''The Strange Case of Billy Biswas, 1971''
*''The Apprentice, 1974''
*''The Last Labyrinth, 1981''
*''The City and the River, 1990''

===Short stories===
*''The Survivor and Other Stories, 1975.''
*''The Only American From Our Village.''

===Other===
*''Shri Ram: A Biography'', with [[Khushwant Singh]], 1968.
*''Laia Shri Ram: A Study in Entrepreneurship and Industrial Management'', 1975.

==External links==
*[http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4485/Joshi-Arun.html Arun Joshi's Profile]
*[http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2414 Arun Joshi on Literary Encyclopaedia]

==References==
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