Amitabha Bagchi is an Indian author, who was awarded

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in 2019 and shortlisted for JCB Prize for Literature and

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for his novel '' Half the Night is Gone''. He is the author of five

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Personal life

He was born in 1974 in Delhi and is currently serving as

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. He was awarded the

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 Munir Niazi (Punjabi language, Punjabi, Urdu: ;09 April 1923 – 26 December 2006), was a Pakistani poet. He mostly wrote in the Punjabi language, Punjabi and Urdu languages and also wrote for newspapers, magazines and radio. In 1960, he es ...

* ''Lost Paradise: Selected Ghazals of Muneer Niazi'' (2022)

References

20th-century Indian writers 1974 births Academic staff of IIT Delhi Living people {{India-writer-stub