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News
The Immortals shortlisted for the Comonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book 2009
The Immortals a New Yorker Book of the Year 2009, a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year 2009, and Reviewers Choice, Boston Globe and Irish Times, Best Books 2009
Upcoming Events and Concerts
A performance by the Amit Chaudhuri Band at Big Ben, New Kenilworth Hotel, Calcutta, as part of its Friday Night Live! series, on 2nd July, 10 pm.
Amit Chaudhuri will read and perform at the HEART Museum for Contemporary Art in Herning, Denmark, 2nd September.
Two recent reviews of the UK release by Babel of the CD, This Is Not Fusion
Chris May on the premier jazz website says: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=35566
Peter Culshaw in the Barbican's arts website: http://www.theartsdesk.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1047:new-music-cd-round-up-6&Itemid=29
The second review also appeared as a four star review in Songlines magazine.
Older News from 2009
Amit Chaudhuri judged the Man Booker International Prize 2009 (the winner, Alice Munro, was announced on May 27th 2009).
Amit Chaudhuri was elected in 2009 to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature
'A publisher's nightmare': see below for the first (and only, to date) Guardian editorial on an Indian writer
In praise of ... Amit Chaudhuri
Editorial The Guardian, Thursday July 31 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/31/2
Go to Amit Chaudhuri´s music site on myspace.com
myspace.com/amitchaudhuri
Become a fan on the Amit Chaudhuri Band Facebook site: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Amit-Chaudhuri-Band/225765246714?ref=ts
Also, see www.babellabel.co.uk and cdbaby.com to buy the CD. Also available from www.amazon.com, and iTunes.
The European perfomances of the Amit Chaudhuri Band (This is Not Fusion) are being represented by Roger Elsgood of Art and Adventure
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