Amit Chaudhuri Odysseus Abroad

Literature
Book Discussions
Book Reading & Book Launch
Thursday, 15th January 2015
From 6:00pm to 8:00pm (IST)
Essar House, 11 K. K. Marg, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai - 400034.
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Free

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Join us for a curtain raiser to Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2015, with C. P. Surendran, Chief Editor of DNA, who is in conversation with author Amit Chaudhuri and his ambitious task of reworking two epics - James Joyce's Ulysses and its original, Homer's Odyssey and their influences which led to the creation of his latest novel, Odysseus Abroad, which is about London in the eighties.

Faculty

Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri

Author & Critic

Award-winning author & critic. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature & Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom.

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C.P. Surendran

C.P. Surendran

Poet, Novelist and Journalist

Poet, Novelist Screenwriter and Journalist. He is at present the editor-in-chief of DNA and divides his time between Mumbai and Delhi.

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Collaborations

Jaipur Literature Festival
Jaipur Literature Festival
Penguin Random House India
Penguin Random House India
British Council
British Council

Event Video



Press Coverage

'My book is about the nothingness between big events'

'My book is about the nothingness between big events'

Thursday, January 15, 2015 DNA
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Dissecting Odysseus Abroad at ZEE Jaipur Litfest curtain-raiser

Dissecting Odysseus Abroad at ZEE Jaipur Litfest curtain-raiser

Thursday, January 15, 2015 DNA
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