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name: Rajat Chaudhuri
about: Rajat Chaudhuri has published and edited a variety of works including novels, short story collections, anthologies and translations. His published works include Butterfly Effect, Calcutta Nights (translation), The Great Bengali Poetry Underground (translation, poetry) Hotel Calcutta, The Best Asian Speculative Fiction (ed), Calculus (fiction, Bengali) and Amber Dusk. He is the Charles Wallace Creative Writing Fellow (2014) at the University of Chichester, United Kingdom, Hawthornden Castle Fellow (2015) and a Korean Arts Council Fellow (2013) at Toji Cultural Centre, South Korea. Chaudhuri is a past Fellow of the Sangam House International Writers Residency. Chaudhuri's fiction has appeared in Eclectica, Underground Voices, Notes from the U Rajat Chaudhuri has published and edited a variety of works including novels, short story collections, anthologies and translations. His published works include Butterfly Effect, Calcutta Nights (translation), The Great Bengali Poetry Underground (translation, poetry) Hotel Calcutta, The Best Asian Speculative Fiction (ed), Calculus (fiction, Bengali) and Amber Dusk. He is the Charles Wallace Creative Writing Fellow (2014) at the University of Chichester, United Kingdom, Hawthornden Castle Fellow (2015) and a Korean Arts Council Fellow (2013) at Toji Cultural Centre, South Korea. Chaudhuri is a past Fellow of the Sangam House International Writers Residency. Chaudhuri's fiction has appeared in Eclectica, Underground Voices, Notes from the Underground, The Statesman, L'Allure des Mots and other snakepits of the international literary underground. He is also a critic and has reviewed fiction for Sahitya Akademi's (India's National academy of Letters) Indian Literature journal, The Asian Review of Books, Outlook, The Telegraph and elsewhere. One of his short stories was the winning entry of the Wordweavers Fiction Contest, 2011. Before turning to writing full-time, Chaudhuri has been a consumer rights activist, an economic and political affairs officer with a Japanese Mission and a climate change advocate at the United Nations, New York. Chaudhuri has also published non-fiction work in the area of water rights and misleading environmental claims in advertising.Hotel Calcutta reviewed:`A persuasive artist' -- Asian Review of Books http://www.asianreviewofbooks.com/new...`Sheer power of storytelling' -- The Telegraph http://telegraphindia.com/1130329/jsp...`Astounding’ … `Not to be missed.’ -- Indian Literature journal, Sahitya Akademi (India's National Academy of Letters)http://bit.ly/18DeozOAmber Dusk reviewed:`A heady mix of experiences' -- The Telegraph `A memorable novel of East-West encounter' -- Amitava Roy`Another type of writing emerging within Indian English writing' -- Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi (JSTOR) ...more