Nirad chaudhuri autobiography meaning
Autobiography definition!
The Indian Writer and the Past
NIRAD CHAUDHURI ENJOYED COMPLAINING about his struggles despite a long, outwardly happy and very productive life. He became a full-time writer during the s, when very few Indians wrote “literature” in English.
Nirad chaudhuri autobiography meaning
Like their successors, they lacked a significant domestic audience—to be published meant being published abroad. Even in Britain, until the breakthrough success of Midnight’s Children in , books about India usually sold in modest quantities.
The best-known “Indian” novels were written by English (or Anglo-Irish) writers like Paul Scott and JG Farrell (who won the Booker Prize in for the superb The Siege of Krishnapur). Yet Chaudhuri managed to earn his living as a writer—if his books did not make much money, he always found publishers willing to take them.
In , he moved with his wife to Oxford, where he spent thirty-odd years, dying at the Biblical age of His last book was published shortly before his hundredth birthday.
His first book c