Amandeep Sandhu

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{{Infobox writer
| name = Amandeep Sandhu
| native_name_lang = pa
| native_name = ਅਮਨਦੀਪ ਸੰਧੂ
| image = Amandeep Sandhu - B&W.jpg
| image_size = 220px
| caption = Amandeep Sandhu in 2013
| birth_date = 1973
| language = English
| alma_mater = [[University of Hyderabad]]
| genre = Novel
}}'''Amandeep Sandhu''' ({{Lang-pa|ਅਮਨਦੀਪ ਸੰਧੂ}}, born 1973) is a Punjabi writer and journalist who writes in English. His second novel ''Roll of Honour'' was nominated for Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction in 2013.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/anees-salim-bags-the-hindu-prize-for-best-fiction-2013/article5574489.ece|title=Anees Salim bags The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2013|author=Staff Reporter|date=2014-01-14|work=The Hindu|access-date=2019-11-12|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Sandhu was born in a Sikh family in [[Rourkela]], Odisha in 1973. He did a Masters in English Literature from the University of Hyderabad.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/fellowship/fellows/amandeep-singh-sandhu~pe3546/|title=Amandeep Singh Sandhu|website=Akademie Schloss Solitude|access-date=2019-11-06}}</ref> He then did a Diploma in Journalism from Asian School of Journalism.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sikhchic.com/article-detail.php?cat=11&id=2945|title=sikhchic.com {{!}} The Art and Culture of the Diaspora {{!}} Engaging With Life: Amandeep Singh Sandhu|website=sikhchic.com|access-date=2019-11-06}}</ref>

In 2013, he joined [[Akademie Schloss Solitude]], Stuttgart, Germany for a 2 year fellowship.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/fellowship/fellows/amandeep-singh-sandhu~pe3546/|title=Amandeep Singh Sandhu|website=Akademie Schloss Solitude|access-date=2019-11-06}}</ref>

His journalism has appeared in The Caravan<ref>{{Cite web|title=Amandeep Sandhu {{!}} The Caravan|url=https://caravanmagazine.in/author/783|access-date=2021-02-06|website=caravanmagazine.in}}</ref> and The Hindustan Times.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-04-22|title=Lockdown Diaries: Punjab; standing between hunger and India by Amandeep Sandhu|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/lockdown-diaries-punjab-standing-between-hunger-and-india-by-amandeep-sandhu/story-kpwZIjXpN1TQSfwhUhtppM.html|access-date=2021-02-06|website=Hindustan Times|language=en}}</ref>

== Works ==

=== Sepia Leaves (2008) ===
''Sepia Leaves'' is a semi-autobiographical novel<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.anureviews.com/sepia-leaves-by-amandeep-sandhu/|title=Sepia Leaves by Amandeep Sandhu|last=Goyal|first=Anuradha|date=2010-01-08|website=Anu Reviews|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-06}}</ref> set in 1970s when [[The Emergency (India)|emergency]] was declared by then Prime Minister, [[Indira Gandhi]] and the protagonist is growing up in Rourkela and his mother suffers from [[schizophrenia]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sarin|first=Alok|date=2009-01-01|title=Not to be loose shunted|url=http://www.indianjpsychiatry.org/article.asp?issn=0019-5545;year=2009;volume=51;issue=1;spage=71;epage=71;aulast=Sarin;type=0|journal=Indian Journal of Psychiatry|language=en|volume=51|issue=1|pages=71|issn=0019-5545}}</ref>

=== Roll of Honour (2012) ===
''Roll of Honour'' is a semi-autobiographical novel which tells the story of Appu who studies at a military boarding school in the fictional town of Jassabad in Punjab in 1984.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/the-need-to-remember/article4195544.ece|title=The need to remember|last=Balakrishnan|first=Uday|date=2012-12-15|work=The Hindu|access-date=2019-11-06|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/books/2013/jun/30/When-a-turban-defined-militancy-491924.html|title=When a turban defined militancy|website=The New Indian Express|access-date=2019-11-13}}</ref>

This novel was translated into Punjabi by [[Daljit Ami]] under the title "Gwah De Fanah Hon Ton Pahilan".

=== Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines (2019) ===
''Panjab'' Sandhu's first work of non-fiction in which he looks at the past and present of Punjab, India in the backdrop of [[Green Revolution in India|Green revolution]], Emergency, [[Punjab insurgency]] and the present.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/return-of-the-native-amandeep-sandhu-author-books-6112133/|title=In his new book, Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines, author Amandeep Sandhu touches upon Punjab’s disquiet|date=2019-11-10|website=The Indian Express|language=en-IN|access-date=2019-11-12}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:English-language writers from India]]

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