Novelist and critic Amit Chaudhuri talks with editor Jacqueline Norton about his new collection of essays The Origins of Dislike. He talks about the creative interplay between his essays, criticism, and his novels – notably Friend of my Youth. He explains his dislike of the view that art ought to have a sense of ‘completeness’.
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Amit Chaudhuri is the author of seven novels, the latest of which is Friend of My Youth. He is also a critic and a musician and composer. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Awards for his fiction include the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Betty Trask Prize, the Encore Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Indian government's Sahitya Akademi Award. In 2013, he was awarded the first Infosys Prize in the Humanities for outstanding contribution to literary studies. He is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.
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