Amitava Kumar (born 17 March 1963) is an Indian writer and journalist who is Professor of English, holding the Helen D. Lockwood Chair at Vassar College. [1]

2013年12月18日 · “Kumar unfurls a majestic Indian family saga in successive bildungsroman narratives of a father and daughter . . . A stunning final chapter sheds new light on their stories . . . Kumar excels at blending mysticism and a refined cosmopolitan perspective . . .

2013年12月31日 · Amitava Kumar is a writer and journalist. He was born in Ara, and grew up in the nearby town of Patna, famous for its corruption, crushing poverty and delicious mangoes. Kumar is the author of several books of non-fiction and four novels. For 2023-24, he is a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library.

Amitava Kumar, Professor of English on the Helen D. Lockwood Chair, is author of My Beloved Life, a new novel published by Penguin Random House, that traces a fictional life through 20th-century India.

2023年11月28日 · My Beloved Life addresses this most fundamental of questions with all of Amitava Kumar’s trademark wisdom and wit. A novel of vaulting ambition and tenderness, about how histories, both personal and national, are built, refracted, and revised.” —Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies

2024年4月1日 · James Wood reviews “My Beloved Life,” by Amitava Kumar, the author of “Immigrant, Montana” and “A Time Outside This Time.”

Amitava Kumar is a writer, journalist and English professor. He participated in the Bellagio Center residency in 2018 to write a novel about fake news, “A Time Outside This Time.”

2024年4月8日 · Amitava Kumar is a professor of English at Vassar College and a Cullman fellow at the New York Public Library. He is the author of, most recently, the novel My Beloved Life . Read More On ...

Amitava Kumar is a writer and journalist. He was born in Ara, and grew up in the nearby town of Patna, famous for its corruption, crushing poverty, and delicious mangoes. Kumar is the author of several books of nonfiction and two novels.

Dispatches from a writer's life. Writer. Novels include Immigrant, Montana (Knopf, 2018); A Time Outside This Time (Knopf, 2021); My Beloved Life (Knopf, 2024). Bylines: Granta, Harper's, New Yorker, NYT. Vassar prof. Guggenheim, Cullman Center Fellow.