Amitabha Bagchi is an Indian author, who was awarded DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2019 and shortlisted for JCB Prize for Literature and The Hindu Literary Prize for his novel Half the Night is Gone. He is the author of five novels.
Personal life He was born in 1974 in Delhi and is currently serving as a Professor of Computer science at IIT Delhi. He was awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature at the Nepal Literature Festival.
Books
Amitabha Bagchi has published five novels
Above Average (2007) The Householder (2012) This Place (2013) Half the Night is Gone (2018) Unknown City (2025) In addition, he has also translated a volume of poems by the Urdu poet Munir Niazi
Lost Paradise: Selected Ghazals of Muneer Niazi (2022)
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