Rajorshi Chakraborti

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Rajorshi Chakraborti is an Edinburgh-based novelist and academic. He was born in 1977 in Kolkata, and grew up there and in Mumbai. He attended the Lester B. Pearson United World College in Victoria, B.C., Canada, the University of Hull where he was awarded the Philip Larkin Prize, and the University of Edinburgh where he completed his doctoral studies in African and Indian Literature. Chakraborti is the great grandson of the Bengali writer Hemendrakumar Roy.

Chakraborti's first novel Or the Day Seizes You, (Penguin India), was shortlisted for the Hutch-Crossword prize in 2006. His second novel, Derangements will be published by Harper Collins in July 2008. He is currently teaching Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh.

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An Interview with Rajorshi Chakraborti: http://jaiarjun.blogspot.com/2006/03/conversation-with-rajorshi-chakraborti.html

A Short Story by Rajorshi Chakraborti: http://textualities.net/writers/creative-writing/chakrabortir01.php