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'''Irwin Allan Sealy''' (born 1951) is an Indian writer. His novel ''The Everest Hotel: A Calendar'' was shortlisted for the 1998 [[Man Booker Prize|Booker prize]].<ref name=mb>[http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,919787,00.html ''Puppets on a String'' Mithu Banerji in the Observer 23 March 2003 Guardian Unlimited] accessed June 2007</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Allan was born in [[Allahabad]] and he went to [[La Martiniere Lucknow|La Martiniere School]] in Lucknow and then on to [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi|St. Stephen's College, Delhi University]].<ref name="sscalums">{{cite web<br />
|last=St. Stephen's College <br />
|first=Delhi <br />
|date=2000-08-01 <br />
|url=http://www.ststephens.edu/StStephens/httpdocs/alumni/hof.htm <br />
|title=Distinguished Alumni <br />
|publisher=St. Stephen's College, Delhi <br />
|access-date=2007-06-24 <br />
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928051504/http://www.ststephens.edu/StStephens/httpdocs/alumni/hof.htm <br />
|archive-date=2007-09-28 <br />
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}}</ref> He has worked in Canada, the USA, New Zealand and Australia.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}<br />
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His first novel ''The Trotter Nama'' was published in 1988 and tells the story of seven generations of an Anglo-Indian family.<ref>{{Cite web|title=I. Allan Sealy -- English Writer: The South Asian Literary Recordings Project (Library of Congress New Delhi Office)|url=https://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/iallansealy.html#:~:text=Sealy%27s%20first%20novel,%20The%20Trotter,the%20Booker%20Prize%20in%201998.|access-date=2020-07-20|website=www.loc.gov}}</ref> <br />
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He now lives in [[Dehradun]], [[Uttarakhand]].{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}<br />
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==Awards==<br />
* [[Commonwealth Writers' Prize]], Best First Book, Europe and South Asia, in 1989<br />
* [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] in 1991 <ref>[http://www.sahitya-akademi.org/sahitya-akademi/awa10304.htm#english Award for writing in English in 1991] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070713025744/http://www.sahitya-akademi.org/sahitya-akademi/awa10304.htm#english |date=13 July 2007 }} accessed July 2007</ref><br />
* [[Vodafone Crossword Book Award|Crossword Book Award]] in 1998<br />
* [[Padma Shri]] in 2012<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref><br />
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==List of works==<br />
* ''The Trotter-Nama: A Chronicle'', (New York: Knopf, 1988; London: Penguin Books, 1990; New York: Viking Penguin, 1990) {{ISBN|0-14-010210-8}}.<br />
* ''Hero: A Fable'', (London: Secker and Warburg, 1991, 288pp) {{ISBN|0-436-44478-X}}.<br />
* ''From Yukon to Yukatan: a Western Journey'', (London: Secker & Warburg, 1994., 323pp) {{ISBN|0-436-44479-8}}.<br />
* ''The Everest Hotel: A Calendar'', (London: Doubleday, 1998, 331pp) {{ISBN|0-385-41033-6}}.<br />
* ''The Brainfever Bird'', (London: Picador, 2003, 320pp) {{ISBN|0-330-41143-8}}.<br />
* ''Red: An Alphabet'' (London: Picador, 2006, 343pp) {{ISBN|0-330-41147-0}}.<br />
* ''The Small Wild Goose Pagoda: An Almanack'' (New Delhi: Aleph, 2014, 300pp) {{ISBN|978-9383064489}}.<br />
* ''Zelaldinus: A Masque'' (New Delhi: Aleph/Almost Island, 2017, 168pp) {{ISBN|978-9386021076}}.<br />
* ''Asoca: A Sutra'' (New Delhi: Penguin Random House, 2021, 392pp) {{ISBN|978-9354920639}}.<br />
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==References==<br />
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* [https://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/iallansealy.html I Allan Sealy] at The South Asian Literary Recordings Project, Library of Congress; New Delhi Office, India<br />
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