Amit Chaudhuri is a writer and musician. He is the author of eight novels, the latest of which is Sojourn. His first five novels were reissued by New York Review Books from 2024 to 2026. His works of nonfiction include, most recently, Finding the Raga, which received the James Tait Black Prize in 2022. Chaudhuri is a Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Centre for the Creative and the Critical (CCC) at Ashoka University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an honorary fellow of the Modern Language Association of America, and an honorary fellow of Balliol College at the University of Oxford. He edits literaryactivism.com and the Literary Activism imprint, a publishing partnership between the CCC and Westland Books. In 2018, he received the Sangeet Samman from the West Bengal government for his contribution to North Indian classical music. He wrote the libretto for Pandit Ravi Shankar’s opera, Sukanya. He has performed at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, on BBC television’s Review Show, the London Jazz Festival, and at various conferences of North Indian classical music. His twenty-one-year-old project in crossover experimental music has been celebrated internationally. It is a repertoire that uses the raga, blues, and other sources as "found material," and interrogates the assumptions of Indo-Western "fusion." His latest album is Across the Universe (2023).