Amit Chaudhuri was born in Calcutta in 1962, and grew up in Bombay. He read English at University College, London, where he took his BA with First Class Honours, and completed his doctorate on critical theory and the poetry of D.H. Lawrence at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Dervorguilla Scholar.

Amit Chaudhuri is a trained and critically acclaimed singer in the North Indian classical tradition; he has received high praise for his singing from various newspapers and journals, In 2004, he began to conceptualise a project in experimental music, ‘This is Not Fusion,’ which received great critical acclaim and an overwhelming response from the audience upon its inaugural performance in Calcutta on January 15, 2005.

His criticism and fiction have appeared regularly in most of the major journals in the world, including the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the Observer, the Spectator, Granta, the New Republic, and the New Yorker. A short film was made about him by the BBC for their ‘India Week’ on the Late Show. He was one of the London Observer’s Twenty One writers for the Millennium, and one of India Today’s ‘Faces of the Millennium’. He was one of the judges for the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and judged the IMPAC Dublin International Literary Prize 2001. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.