Irwin Allan Sealy (born 1951) is an Indian writer. His novel The Everest Hotel: A Calendar was shortlisted for the 1998 Booker prize.[1]
Biography
Allan was born in Allahabad and he went to La Martiniere School in Lucknow and then on to St. Stephen's College, Delhi University.[2] He has worked in Canada, the USA, New Zealand and Australia.Template:Citation needed
His first novel The Trotter Nama was published in 1988 and tells the story of seven generations of an Anglo-Indian family.[3]
He now lives in Dehradun, Uttarakhand.Template:Citation needed
Awards
- Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book, Europe and South Asia, in 1989
- Sahitya Akademi Award in 1991 [4]
- Crossword Book Award in 1998
- Padma Shri in 2012[5]
List of works
- The Trotter-Nama: A Chronicle, (New York: Knopf, 1988; London: Penguin Books, 1990; New York: Viking Penguin, 1990) Template:ISBN.
- Hero: A Fable, (London: Secker and Warburg, 1991, 288pp) Template:ISBN.
- From Yukon to Yukatan: a Western Journey, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1994., 323pp) Template:ISBN.
- The Everest Hotel: A Calendar, (London: Doubleday, 1998, 331pp) Template:ISBN.
- The Brainfever Bird, (London: Picador, 2003, 320pp) Template:ISBN.
- Red: An Alphabet (London: Picador, 2006, 343pp) Template:ISBN.
- The Small Wild Goose Pagoda: An Almanack (New Delhi: Aleph, 2014, 300pp) Template:ISBN.
- Zelaldinus: A Masque (New Delhi: Aleph/Almost Island, 2017, 168pp) Template:ISBN.
- Asoca: A Sutra (New Delhi: Penguin Random House, 2021, 392pp) Template:ISBN.
References
- ↑ Puppets on a String Mithu Banerji in the Observer 23 March 2003 Guardian Unlimited accessed June 2007
- ↑ Distinguished Alumni, St. Stephen's College, Delhi. St. Stephen's College, Delhi(2000-08-01). Retrieved 2007-06-24.
- ↑ I. Allan Sealy -- English Writer: The South Asian Literary Recordings Project (Library of Congress New Delhi Office). www.loc.gov. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
- ↑ Award for writing in English in 1991 Template:Webarchive accessed July 2007
- ↑ Padma Awards. Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India(2015). Retrieved 21 July 2015.
External links
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- I Allan Sealy at The South Asian Literary Recordings Project, Library of Congress; New Delhi Office, India
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