South Asia Writes @ Yale Series: Becoming An Indian Novelist: A Journey, Chandrahas Choudhury

The writer Chandrahas Choudhury will describe the eight years he spent writing his new novel Clouds (Simon & Schuster). He will talk about evolving as an artist, political thinker, citizen, traveler and even cook. The goal: to try and grasp, and then represent in new narrative forms, the public and private lives, the conflicts and dilemmas, of a variety of Indians at one of the most crucial periods in Indian history – the age that later generations will look back on as “the first century of Indian democracy”.
A bio:
Chandrahas Choudhury is a novelist and essayist based in New Delhi, and the author of Clouds (Atria Books, 2019). His first novel, Arzee the Dwarf, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth First Book Prize, selected by World Literature Today as one of “60 Essential Works of Modern Indian Literature in English”, and published in the US by New York Review Books. He writes about literature, travel, and politics for a number of American journals, including The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. In 2010 he was a Visiting Fellow at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and 2013 a visiting writer at Ledig House. He is also the editor to a short introduction to the pleasures of Indian literature for the literary-minded traveler, India: A Traveler’s Literary Companion (Whereabouts Press, California, 2010).