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Freedom Song

Freedom Song

Amit Chaudhuri
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Imprint: India Penguin

Published: Oct/2012

ISBN: 9780143419426

Length : 241 Pages

MRP : ₹299.00

Freedom Song

Amit Chaudhuri

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Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri is the author of five highly acclaimed novels,
of which A Strange and Sublime Address, Afternoon Raag,
Freedom Song, and A New World won, between them, the
Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Betty Trask Prize, the Encore
Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the
Sahitya Akademi Award; his latest novel is The Immortals. He
is also a poet, an acclaimed musician, and a highly regarded
critic, and has edited The Picador Book of Modern Indian
Literature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
and Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University
of East Anglia. In 2012 he was awarded the Infosys Prize for
outstanding contribution to the humanities in literary studies.
Amit Chaudhuri lives in Calcutta and Norwich.

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