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 Nonvegetarian (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.