Living Writers: Samrat Upadhyay
Thursday, November 14, 2024 4:30–5:45 PM
Description
Samrat Upadhyay is the first Nepali-born fiction writer to be published in the United States. His debut story collection, Arresting God in Kathmandu, won a Whiting Writers’ Award, and his second, The Royal Ghosts, won the Asian American Literary Award. He is also the author of three novels, The Guru of Love, Buddha’s Orphans, and The City Son, and a third story collection, Mad Country, which The New York Times called “brilliant, daring, and memorable.” He is the Martha C. Kraft Professor of Humanities at Indiana University, where he teaches creative writing.Co-sponsored by Asian Studies