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Upamanyu Chatterjee was born on 1959 in Patna, Bihar, India, is a Upamanyu Chatterjee is author. Discover Upamanyu Chatterjee's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?
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Upamanyu Chatterjee (born 1959) is an author and a retired Indian civil servant.
His works include the novel English, August: An Indian story, The Last Burden, The Mammaries of the Welfare State and Weight Loss.
Chatterjee was born in 1959 in Patna, Bihar.
Chatterjee has written and published short stories since the 1980s, including stories republished in the 2019 collection The Assassination of Indira Gandhi.
He attended Delhi University, graduated from St. Stephens College, and became a 1983 batch Indian Administrative Service officer.
His 1988 novel, English, August : An Indian story was adapted into the film English, August.
He became a Writer in Residence at the University of Kent in 1990.
His novel The Last Burden was published in 1993.
He became a Director in the Ministry of Human Resource Development in India in 1998.
A sequel to English, August, The Mammaries of the Welfare State was published in 2000.
His fourth novel, Weight Loss, a dark comedy, was published in 2006.
In 2008, he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contribution to literature.
In 2009, he was awarded Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in recognition of his "exemplary contribution to contemporary literature" In 2004, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for The Mammaries of the Welfare State.
His fifth novel Way To Go, a sequel to The Last Burden, was published in 2010 and longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize.
The novel Way To Go was shortlisted for The Hindu Best Fiction Award in 2010.
In 2014, he published Fairy Tales at Fifty.
Indrapramit Das writes in a review for The Hindu Business Line, "Like a David Lynch film set in India, Upamanyu Chatterjee’s latest book is a monstrous fairytale that respects the darkness of the real world."
In 2018, his novella The Revenge of the Non-vegetarian was published.
Pratik Kanjilal writes in a review for The Indian Express, "In a way, it is a back story to his first novel".
Uddalak Mukherjee writes in a review for The Telegraph, "Writers cannot be faulted for turning towards their most successful work for inspiration after dishing out a few ordinary books", and "The result [...] is a pacy, tautly-written narrative."
In The Hindu, Anjana Sharma equates Upamanyu's vision of humanity with W.B. Yeats.
She writes, "Eighty years apart, cultures, civilisations, even craft and temperament apart, Yeats and Chatterjee share an identical vision of a de-centered, de-natured world."
Mukul Dikshit opines that Chatterjee has, for the first time, focused on a "new class" of Westernised urban Indians who were hitherto ignored in the regional as well as the English fiction of India.
