Chandrahas choudhury biography

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Chandrahas Choudhury is an Indian novelist. His novels include Arzee the Dwarf and Clouds. Arzee the Dwarf was shortlisted for the Commonwealth First Book prize.^[1] His 2018 novel Clouds was long listed for the JCB Prize for literature.^[2] Arzee the Dwarf has received spectacular reviews.

Chandrahas choudhury biography in hindi

In India today, Omair Ahmed writes“About a quarter of the way through Arzee the Dwarf, one of the characters, Dashrath, the wise taxi driver, who supplies dialogues for Bhojpuri movies and loves his metaphors, asks, ‘Do we live the life given to us, or do we really live a kind of dream life?

Isn’t our real life really a life of the imagination?’ It is not an original thought, but the success of Chandrahas Choudhury’s debut novel lies in how movingly he manages to bring out this little truth through the life of the eponymous Arzee the dwarf.” ¹The Tin House, in an interview with Chandrahas, describes Arzee the Dwarf as “Intimate, funny, crafty, vernacular…” ².

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