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
''Half the Night is Gone'' is the third novel of Amitabha Bagchi published by Juggernaut Books
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''. He is the author of four
novels
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.
Personal life
He was born in 1974 in Delhi and is currently serving as
Professor of
Computer science in
IIT Delhi.
He was awarded the
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature at the
Nepal Literature Festival.
References
20th-century Indian writers
1974 births
Academic staff of IIT Delhi
Living people
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