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Samrat Upadhyay (en népalais : सम्राट उपाध्याय ), né à Katmandou en 1964 est un écrivain népalais d'expression anglaise et un professeur d'écriture créative à l'université de l'Indiana à Bloomington. Il est le premier Népalais à écrire en anglais et à être publié en occident. Après avoir émigré aux États-Unis à l'âge de 21 ans, il devient un auteur important dans la transmission de la culture et de la réalité népalaise en abordant dans ses recueils de nouvelles (dont Arresting God in Kathmandu) ou ses romans (Buddha's Orphans, Water) empreint de réalisme, un large éventail de problèmes familiaux, sociétaux et politiques avec lesquels doivent composer ses personnages pour vivre. « Upadhay’s world is full of small gestures of compassion and care, despite moments of sadness, death, alienation, and these compassionate gestures make a difference in the lives of those they touch. » — Ubaraj Katawal « Le monde d'Upadhyay est plein de compassion et d'affection, malgré des moments de tristesse, de mort, d'aliénation, et cette compassion fait une différence dans la vie de ceux qu'elle touche. » (fr) Samrat Upadhyay (Nepali: सम्राट उपाध्याय)(born 1964) is a Nepalese born American writer who writes in English. Upadhyay is a professor of creative writing and has previously served as the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Indiana University. He is the first Nepali-born fiction writer writing in English to be published in the West. He was born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal, and came to the United States in 1984 at the age of twenty-one. He lives with his wife and daughter in Bloomington, Indiana. In 2001, Upadhyay won a Whiting Award for fiction. He was an English professor at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio before moving to Indiana in 2003. His books specially portray the current situation in Nepal, which Upadhyay views largely through the lens of contemporary American realist fiction. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Upadhyay is "like a Buddhist Chekhov." (en) |
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