- Allan Sealy
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name = Irwin Allan Sealy
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pseudonym = Allan Sealy
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birthdate = birth year and age|1951
birthplace =Allahabad
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occupation = Writer
nationality = Indian
period = 1990-
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website =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 1998Booker prize . [http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,919787,00.html "Puppets on a String" Mithu Banerji in the Observer March 23rd 2003 Guardian Unlimited] accessed June 2007]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.cite web
last = St. Stephen's College
first = Delhi
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date =2000-08-01
url = http://www.ststephens.edu/StStephens/httpdocs/alumni/hof.htm
title = Distinguished Alumni
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publisher = St. Stephen's College, Delhi
accessdate = 2007-06-24] 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 spends his time in
Dehra Dun .Awards
* Commonwealth Best Book Award in 1989
*Sahitya Akademi Award in 1991 [ [http://www.sahitya-akademi.org/sahitya-akademi/awa10304.htm#english Award for writing in English in 1991] accessed July 2007]
* Crossword Book Award in 1998List of works
* "The Trotter-Nama: A Chronicle", (New York: Knopf, 1988; London: Penguin Books, 1990; New York: Viking Penguin, 1990)
ISBN : 0140102108.
* "Hero: A Fable", (London: Secker and Warburg, 1991, 288pp)ISBN : 043644478X.
* "From Yukon to Yukatan: a Western Journey", (London: Secker & Warburg, 1994., 323pp)ISBN : 0436444798.
* "The Everest Hotel: A Calendar", (London: Doubleday, 1998, 331pp)ISBN : 0385410336.
* "The Brainfever Bird", (London: Picador, 2003, 320pp)ISBN : 0330411438.
* "Red: an Alphabet" (London: Picador, 2006, 343pp)ISBN : 0330411470.References
External links
* [http://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/iallansealy.html Allan reading from his work at The South Asian Literary recordings project] accessed June 2007
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