Amit Chaudhuri has written four novels, a book of short stories, and edited the Picador Book of Modern Literature. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, recently published D.H.Lawrence and ‘Difference’, his study of D.H.Lawrence’s poetry and critical theory. He has been translated into several languages and has won the Betty Trask Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Encore Prize, the Southern Arts Literature Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Sahitya Akademi award. He is also a vocalist in the North Indian classical tradition.