Allan Sealy

Irwin Allan Sealy
Born	1951 (age 64–65) Allahabad
Pen name	Allan Sealy
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Indian
Period	1990-

Irwin Allan Sealy is a writer born in 1951 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. 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.

His first novel The Trotter Nama was published in 1988 and tells the story of seven generations of an Anglo-Indian family. It includes references to his former school which is thinly disguised.

He now lives in Dehra Dun.

Awards

Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book, Europe and South Asia, in 1989
Sahitya Akademi Award in 1991 ^[3]
Crossword Book Award in 1998
Padma Shri in 2012^[4]

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.

References

↑ Puppets on a String Mithu Banerji in the Observer March 23rd 2003 Guardian Unlimited accessed June 2007
↑ St. Stephen's College, Delhi (2000-08-01). "Distinguished Alumni". St. Stephen's College, Delhi. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-06-24.
↑ Award for writing in English in 1991 accessed July 2007
↑ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 15, 2014. Retrieved July 21, 2015.

External links

Allan reading from his work at The South Asian Literary recordings project accessed June 2007

Sahitya Akademi Award for English

1960–1975	The Guide by R. K. Narayan (1960) The Serpent and the Rope by Raja Rao (1964) The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin by Verrier Elwin (1965) Shadow From Ladakh by Bhabani Bhattacharya (1967) An Artist in Life by Niharranjan Ray (1969) Morning Face by Mulk Raj Anand (1971) Scholar Extraordinary by Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1975)

1976–2000	Jawaharlal Nehru by Sarvepalli Gopal (1976) Azadi by Chaman Nahal (1977) Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai (1978) Inside the Haveli by Rama Mehta (1979) On the Mother by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1980) Relationship by Jayanta Mahapatra (1981) The Last Labyrinth by Arun Joshi (1982) Latter-Day Psalms by Nissim Ezekiel (1983) The Keeper of the Dead by Keki N. Daruwalla (1984) Collected Poems by Kamala Das (1985) Rich Like Us by Nayantara Sahgal (1986) Trapfalls In the Sky by Shiv K. Kumar (1987) The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth (1988) The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh (1989) That Long Silence by Shashi Deshpande (1990) The Trotter-Nama by Allan Sealy (1991) Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra by Ruskin Bond (1992) After Amnesia by G. N. Devy (1993) Serendip by Dom Moraes (1994) Memories of Rain by Sunetra Gupta (1996) Final Solutions and Other Plays by Mahesh Dattani (1998) The Collected Poems by A. K. Ramanujan (1999) Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar (2000)

2001–2015	Rajaji: A Life by Rajmohan Gandhi (2001) A New World by Amit Chaudhuri (2002) The Perishable Empire by Meenakshi Mukherjee (2003) The Mammaries of the Welfare State by Upamanyu Chatterjee (2004) The Algebra of Infinite Justice by Arundhati Roy (2005) The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa (2006) Disorderly Women by Malathi Rao (2007) Mahabharata: An Inquiry into the Human Condition by Chaturvedi Badrinath (2009) The Book of Rachel by Esther David (2010) India after Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha (2011) These Errors are Correct by Jeet Thayil (2012) Laburnum For My Head by Temsula Ao (2013) Trying to Say Goodbye by Adil Jussawalla (2014) Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer by Cyrus Mistry (2015)

Padma Shri awards

1954–59 1960–69 1970–79 1980–89 1990–99 2000–09 2010–19

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 104617627 LCCN: n88015093 ISNI: 0000 0000 7838 8886 SUDOC: 055820557 BNF: cb13611444s (data)

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