Upamanyu Chatterjee

Upamanyu Chatterjee was born in 1959 and joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1983. His published works include a few short stories and three novels - English August: An Indian Story (1988), The Last Burden ( 1993) and The Mammaries of the Welfare State (2000), which won the Sahitya Akademi Award for writing in English. Upamanyu Chatterjee is married and has two daughters.