Upamanyu Chatterjee

Upamanyu Chatterjee is the author of English, August: An Indian Story (1988), The Last Burden (1993), The Mammaries of the Welfare State (2000), Weight Loss (2006), Way to Go (2011), Fairy Tales at Fifty (2014) and Villainy (2022), all novels; The Revenge of the Non-vegetarian (2018), a novella and The Assassination of Indira Gandhi (2019), a collection of long stories. In 2000, he won the Sahitya Akademi Award and in 2008, he was awarded the Order of Officier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government for his contribution to literature. His book, Lorenzo Searches for the Meaning of Life, which won the JCB Prize for Literature in 2024, is a study of the extraordinary experiences of an ordinary man and of both the majesty and the banality of the spiritual path. This novel marks a new phase in the literary journey of one of India’s finest and most consistently original writers. His latest collection of novellas, The Hush of the Uncaring Sea, was published in 2025.