Samrat Upadhyay
| Samrat Upadhyay | |
|---|---|
| Native name | सम्राट उपाध्यायl |
| Born | Kathmandu, Nepal |
| Residence | Bloomington, Indiana |
| Nationality | Nepalese |
| Occupation | Professor at Indiana University, writer |
| Notable work | First Nepalese writer published from west Arresting God in Kathmandu |
| Children | 1 |
| Awards | Whiting Award, 2001 |
| Website | samratupadhyay |
Samrat Upadhyay (Nepali: सम्राट उपाध्याय) is a Nepalese writer who writes in English. Upadhyay is a professor of creative writing and has previously served as the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Indiana University. He is the first Nepali-born fiction writer writing in English to be published in the West. He was born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal, and came to the United States at the age of twenty-one. He lives with his wife and daughter in Bloomington, Indiana.
In 2001, Upadhyay won a Whiting Award for fiction. He was an English professor at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio before moving to Indiana in 2003.
His books specially portray the current situation in Nepal, which Upadhyay views largely though the lens of contemporary American realist fiction. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Upadhyay is "like a Buddhist Chekhov."
First published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 2001, Arresting God in Kathmandu is Upadhyay's first book. It is a collection of nine short stories. With Arresting God in Kathmandu Upadhyay won a Whiting Award.
The stories
1. The Good Shopkeeper
2. The Cooking Poet
3. Deepak Misra's Secretary
4. The Limping Bride
5. During the Festival
6. The Room Next Door
7. The Man with Long Hair
8. This World
9. A Great Man's House
First published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 2003, The Guru of Love is Upadhyay's second book and first full-length novel. The Guru of Love was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2003.
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