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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
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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 ...
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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
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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) .


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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 {{india-writer-stub