Amit Chaudhuri Talks About Literary Activism
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2018 · Education
Novelist and critic Amit Chaudhuri talks with editor Jacqueline Norton about his Literary Activism symposia. Existing outside the worlds of academia, commercial publishing, and literary awards, these events give writers a unique space to reflect on the value and purpose of their work, and what ‘the literary’ means today. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-origins-of-dislike-9780198793823 Amit Chaudhuri is the author of seven novels, the latest of which is Friend of My Youth. He is also a critic and a musician and composer. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Awards for his fiction include the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Betty Trask Prize, the Encore Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Indian government's Sahitya Akademi Award. In 2013, he was awarded the first Infosys Prize in the Humanities for outstanding contribution to literary studies. He is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia. © Oxford University Press
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