>MainlyTwelve: space

2021-05-02T22:46:15Z

space

New page

{{EngvarB|date=August 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}}
{{Infobox writer 
| name = Upamanyu Chatterjee
| image =
| imagesize = 200 px
| alt =
| caption = Upamanyu Chatterjee at a reading in New Delhi
| pseudonym =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 1959
| birth_place = [[Patna]], [[Bihar]], India
| death_date =
| death_place =
| resting_place =
| occupation = Author
| language =
| citizenship =
| education =
| alma_mater = [[St. Xavier's School, Delhi]], [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]]
| period =
| genre = Novel
| subject =
| movement =
| spouse =
| partner =
| children =
| awards =
| signature =
| signature_alt =
| website =
}}
'''Upamanyu Chatterjee''' (born 1959) is a retired Indian civil servant who served as [[Joint Secretary to Government of India]] on the [[Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board]]. He is a 1983 batch [[Indian Administrative Service]] [[Civil Services of India|officer]] from [[Maharashtra]] Cadre. He currently resides in Sri Lanka.<ref name=loc>{{cite web|last=Library of Congress New Delhi Office|title=Upamanyu Chatterjee, 1959–|url=https://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/upamanyuchatterjee.html|work=The South Asian Literary Recordings Project|publisher=US Library of Congress}}</ref>

He is an author best known for the novel ''[[English, August]]''.

==Major works==
Chatterjee has written a handful of short stories. His best-selling novel, ''[[English August|English, August : An Indian story]]'' (subsequently made into [[English, August (film)|a major film]]), was published in 1988 and has since been reprinted several times. The novel follows Agastya Sen – a young westernised Indian civil servant whose imagination is dominated by women, literature, and soft drugs. This vivid account of "real India" by the young officer posted to the small provincial town of Madna is "a funny, wryly observed account of Agastya Sen's year in the sticks", as described by a reviewer in ''[[The Observer]]''.<ref name=loc />

His second novel, ''[[The Last Burden]]'', appeared in 1993. ''[[The Mammaries of the Welfare State]]'' was published at the end of 2000 as a sequel to ''English, August''. His fourth novel, ''[[Weight Loss (novel)|Weight Loss]]'', a dark comedy, was published in 2006.<ref name=loc /> His fifth was ''Way To Go'', a sequel to ''The Last Burden'', published in 2010. His most recent work is ''Fairy Tales at Fifty'', was published in 2014.

Dr. Mukul Dikshit opines that Chatterjee has, for the first time, focused on a "new class" of Westernised urban Indians who were hitherto ignored in the regional as well as the English fiction of India.<ref>{{cite web|last=Sharma|first=Anjana|title=What others have to say about Upamanyu Chatterjee|url=http://www.complete-review.com/authors/chattu.htm|work=Upamanyu Chatterjee at the complete review|access-date=26 June 2011}}</ref>

==Awards==
In 2009, he was awarded Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in recognition of his "exemplary contribution to contemporary literature"<ref>{{cite web|title=Upamanyu Chatterjee Gets French Award Officier Des Arts Et Des Lettres|url=http://www.india-server.com/news/upamanyu-chatterjee-gets-french-award-5130.html|access-date=26 June 2011}}</ref> In 2004, he was awarded the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] for ''The Mammaries of the Welfare State''.<ref>{{cite news|last=UNI|title=Sahitya Akademi award winners|url=http://www.hindu.com/2004/12/23/stories/2004122304631200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041230124819/http://www.hindu.com/2004/12/23/stories/2004122304631200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 December 2004|access-date=26 June 2011|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=22 December 2004}}</ref> The novel ''Way To Go'' was shortlisted for [[The Hindu Best Fiction Award]] in 2010.

==Bibliography==
{| class="wikitable"
!Name
!Publisher
!style="width:8em" | ISBN
!Publishing date
!Notes
|- align="left"
|''[[English August|English, August : An Indian story]]''
|[[Faber & Faber]],
Rupa & Co,

NYRB Classics
|Hardback: {{ISBN|0-571-15101-9}}
Paperback: {{ISBN|0-14-027811-7}}

Reprint: {{ISBN|1-59017-179-9}}
|First published June 1988.
Reprint by NYRB Classics 2006
|Hailed as the definitive urban Indian [[Bildungsroman|coming-of-age novel]]
|- align="left"
|''[[The Last Burden]]''
|[[Faber & Faber]]
|Hardback: {{ISBN|0-571-16825-6}}
|16 August 1993
|
|- align="left"
|''[[The Mammaries of the Welfare State]]''
|Viking
|{{ISBN|0-670-87934-7}}
|2000
|Sequel to ''[[English August]]''
|- align ="left"
|''[[Weight Loss (novel)|Weight Loss]]''
|Penguin Books India
|Paperback: {{ISBN|0-670-05862-9}}
| 28 February 2006
|
|- align="left"
|''Way to Go''
|Penguin Books India
|Hardback: {{ISBN|978-0-670-08352-7}}
|15 February 2011
|Sequel to ''[[The Last Burden]]''
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{OL author|568143A}}
* [https://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/upamanyuchatterjee.html Upamanyu Chatterjee] at The South Asian Literary Recordings Project, Library of Congress; New Delhi Office, India
* [http://www.complete-review.com/authors/chattu.htm Upamanyu Chatterjee] at the [[Complete Review]]
* [https://www.unz.org/Author/ChatterjeeUpamanyu Upamanyu Chatterjee] at the [[Unz Review]]

{{Sahitya Akademi Award for English}}
{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chatterjee, Upamanyu}}
[[Category:1959 births]]
[[Category:Bengali people]]
[[Category:Writers from Patna]]
[[Category:Indian civil servants]]
[[Category:Academics of the University of Kent]]
[[Category:Bengali writers]]
[[Category:Indian male novelists]]
[[Category:English-language writers from India]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in English]]
[[Category:University of Delhi alumni]]
[[Category:Indian Administrative Service officers]]
[[Category:Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian novelists]]
[[Category:Novelists from Bihar]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian male writers]]

Upamanyu Chatterjee - Revision history

>MainlyTwelve: space