Indian writer (born 1951)
Irwin Allan Sealy
Born 1951 (age 72–73)Allahabad , Uttar Pradesh , India Pen name Allan Sealy Occupation Writer Nationality Indian Period 1990-
Irwin Allan Sealy (born 1951) is an Indian writer. His novel The Everest Hotel: A Calendar was shortlisted for the 1998 Booker prize .[ 1]
Biography
Allan was born in Allahabad and he went to La Martiniere School in Lucknow and then on to St. Stephen's College, Delhi University .[ 2] He has worked in Canada, the USA, New Zealand and Australia.[citation needed ]
His first novel The Trotter Nama was published in 1988 and tells the story of seven generations of an Anglo-Indian family.[ 3]
He now lives in Dehradun , Uttarakhand .[citation needed ]
Awards
List of works
The Trotter-Nama: A Chronicle , (New York: Knopf, 1988; London: Penguin Books, 1990; New York: Viking Penguin, 1990) ISBN 0-14-010210-8 .
Hero: A Fable , (London: Secker and Warburg, 1991, 288pp) ISBN 0-436-44478-X .
From Yukon to Yukatan: a Western Journey , (London: Secker & Warburg, 1994., 323pp) ISBN 0-436-44479-8 .
The Everest Hotel: A Calendar , (London: Doubleday, 1998, 331pp) ISBN 0-385-41033-6 .
The Brainfever Bird , (London: Picador, 2003, 320pp) ISBN 0-330-41143-8 .
Red: An Alphabet (London: Picador, 2006, 343pp) ISBN 0-330-41147-0 .
The Small Wild Goose Pagoda: An Almanack (New Delhi: Aleph, 2014, 300pp) ISBN 978-9383064489 .
Zelaldinus: A Masque (New Delhi: Aleph/Almost Island, 2017, 168pp) ISBN 978-9386021076 .
Asoca: A Sutra (New Delhi: Penguin Random House, 2021, 392pp) ISBN 978-9354920639 .
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