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Upamanyu Chatterjee is an Indian author and civil servant. He was born in 1959 in Calcutta, India. He is best known for his novel English, August, which was adapted into a feature film in 1994. He has also written several other novels, including The Last Burden, The Mammaries of the Welfare State, and Weight Loss. Chatterjee studied at St. Xavier's College in Calcutta and then at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur. He then joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1983. He served in various capacities in the Indian government, including as a district magistrate in Uttar Pradesh and as a joint secretary in the Ministry of Human Resource Development. Chatterjee has received numerous awards for his writing, including the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for English, August. He has also been awarded the Padma Shri, one of India's highest civilian honors, in 2020. Chatterjee is currently 64 years old. He has not revealed any information about his height, physical stats, or dating/affairs. He is married and has two children. Chatterjee's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. He has earned most of his wealth from his successful career as an author and civil servant.

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2009

In 2009, he was awarded Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in recognition of his "exemplary contribution to contemporary literature" Earlier in 2004, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for The Mammaries of the Welfare State. The novel Way To Go was shortlisted for The Hindu Best Fiction Award in 2010.

1993

His second novel, The Last Burden, appeared in 1993. This novel recreates life in an Indian family at the end of the twentieth century. The Mammaries of the Welfare State was published at the end of 2000 as a sequel to English, August. His fourth novel, Weight Loss, a dark comedy, was published in 2006. His fifth was Way To Go, a sequel to The Last Burden, published in 2010. His most recent work is Fairy Tales at Fifty, published in 2014, another kind of dark comedy that combines the fantasy of fairy tales and reality.

1988

Chatterjee has written a handful of short stories of which "The Assassination of Indira Gandhi" and "Watching Them" are particularly noteworthy. His best-selling novel, English, August : An Indian story (subsequently made into a major film), was published in 1988 and has since been reprinted several times. A review in Punch described the book as "Beautifully written … English, August is a marvelously intelligent and entertaining novel, and especially for anyone curious about modern India". The novel follows Agastya Sen – a young westernised Indian civil servant whose imagination is dominated by women, literature, and soft drugs. This vivid account of "real India" by the young officer posted to the small provincial town of Madna is "a funny, wryly observed account of Agastya Sen's year in the sticks", as described by a reviewer in The Observer.

1959

Upamanyu Chatterjee (Bengali: উপমন্যু চট্টোপাধ্যায় , born 1959) is a retired Indian civil servant who served as Joint Secretary to Government of India on the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board. He is a 1983 batch Indian Administrative Service officer from Maharashtra Cadre. He currently resides in Sri Lanka as his wife is working there.

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