Irwin Allan Sealy (born 1951) is an Indian writer. His novel ''The Everest Hotel: A Calendar'' was shortlisted for the 1998
Booker prize.
[''Puppets on a String'' Mithu Banerji in the Observer 23 March 2003 Guardian Unlimited]
accessed June 2007
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.
He has worked in Canada, the USA, New Zealand and Australia.
His first novel ''The Trotter Nama'' was published in 1988 and tells the story of seven generations of an Anglo-Indian family.
He now lives in
Dehradun,
Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand ( , or ; , ), also known as Uttaranchal ( ; the official name until 2007), is a state in the northern part of India. It is often referred to as the "Devbhumi" (literally 'Land of the Gods') due to its religious significance and ...
.
Awards
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Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Commonwealth Foundation presented a number of prizes between 1987 and 2011. The main award was called the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was composed of two prizes: the Best Book Prize (overall and regional) was awarded from 1987 to 2011; the Best ...
, Best First Book, Europe and South Asia, in 1989
*
Sahitya Akademi Award
The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...
in 1991
Award for writing in English in 1991
accessed July 2007
* Crossword Book Award
The Crossword Book Award (formerly known as the Crossword Book Award (1998–2003), the Hutch Crossword Book Award (2004–07), the Vodafone Crossword Book Award (2008–10), the Economist Crossword Book Award (2011–13), Raymond & Crossword Bo ...
in 1998
* Padma Shri
Padma Shri ( IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conf ...
in 2012
List of works
* ''The Trotter-Nama: A Chronicle'', (New York: Knopf, 1988; London: Penguin Books, 1990; New York: Viking Penguin, 1990) .
* ''Hero: A Fable'', (London: Secker and Warburg, 1991, 288pp) .
* ''From Yukon to Yukatan: a Western Journey'', (London: Secker & Warburg, 1994., 323pp) .
* ''The Everest Hotel: A Calendar'', (London: Doubleday, 1998, 331pp) .
* ''The Brainfever Bird'', (London: Picador, 2003, 320pp) .
* ''Red: An Alphabet'' (London: Picador, 2006, 343pp) .
* ''The Small Wild Goose Pagoda: An Almanack'' (New Delhi: Aleph, 2014, 300pp) .
* ''Zelaldinus: A Masque'' (New Delhi: Aleph/Almost Island, 2017, 168pp) .
* ''Asoca: A Sutra'' (New Delhi: Penguin Random House, 2021, 392pp) .
References
External links
*
I Allan Sealy
at The South Asian Literary Recordings Project, Library of Congress; New Delhi Office, India
Living people
Anglo-Indian people
Novelists from Uttar Pradesh
Writers from Allahabad
1951 births
La Martinière College, Lucknow alumni
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in English
Recipients of the Padma Shri in literature & education
20th-century Indian novelists
21st-century Indian novelists
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