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Samrat Upadhyay was born on 1964 in Kathmandu, Nepal, is a Nepalese-American writer (born 1964). Discover Samrat Upadhyay'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 50 years old?

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Occupation Professor at Indiana University, writer
Age 50 years old
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Born 1974
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Birthplace Kathmandu, Nepal
Nationality Nepalese

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1964

Samrat Upadhyay (सम्राट उपाध्याय) (born 1964) is a Nepalese born American writer who writes in English.

Upadhyay is a professor of creative writing and has previously served as the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Indiana University.

He is the first Nepali-born fiction writer writing in English to be published in the West.

1984

He was born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal, and came to the United States in 1984 at the age of twenty-one.

He lives with his wife and daughter in Bloomington, Indiana.

2001

In 2001, Upadhyay won a Whiting Award for fiction.

First published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 2001, Arresting God in Kathmandu is Upadhyay's first book.

It is a collection of nine short stories.

With Arresting God in Kathmandu Upadhyay won a Whiting Award.

2003

He was an English professor at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio before moving to Indiana in 2003.

His books specially portray the current situation in Nepal, which Upadhyay views largely through the lens of contemporary American realist fiction.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Upadhyay is "like a Buddhist Chekhov."

First published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 2003, The Guru of Love is Upadhyay's second book and first full-length novel.

The Guru of Love was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2003.

2006

First published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 2006, The Royal Ghosts is Upadhyay's third book, a collection of nine short stories.

2008

It is not the basis for the 2008 Mike Myers film The Love Guru.

2010

Published by Houghton Mifflin in 2010, Buddha's Orphans is Upadhyay's fourth book and second novel.

Using Nepal's political upheavals of the past century as a backdrop, it tells the story of an orphan boy, Raja, and the girl he is fated to love, Nilu, a daughter of privilege.

Their love story scandalizes both families and takes readers through time and across the globe, through the loss of and search for children, and through several generations, hinting that perhaps old bends can, in fact, be righted in future branches of a family tree.