Samrat upadhyay indiana university
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College Arts and Humanities Institute
Darkmotherland
Darkmotherland is an epic tale of love, betrayal, and political violence set in an earthquake-ravaged country that is at once familiar and dystopian. At the heart of the novel are two intertwining narratives. One is of Kranti, a revolutionary&#;s daughter, who marries into a plutocratic family and becomes ensnared. The other is of Rosy, concubine to a brutal autocrat, who undergoes her own radical body-changes and recognizes her power. Filled with lovers and widows, pimps and paupers, dictators and dissidents, servants and supplicants, goddesses and genderqueers, Darkmotherland takes its reader through the vast space of a globalized universe where personal ambitions are inextricably tied to political fortunes, where individual identities are shaped by family pressures and social reins, where the East repeatedly connects and collides with the West.
Samrat Upadhyayis Distinguished Professor of English and Professor of H
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Department of English
Education
- Ph.D., University of Hawaii,
About Samrat Upadhyay
Samrat Upadhyay () is the first Nepali-born fiction writer to be published in the United States. His debut short story collection Arresting God in Kathmandu was the winner of the Whiting Writers&#; Award and his second short story collection, The Royal Ghosts, won the Asian American Literary Award. His first novel, The Guru of Love, was a New York Times Notable Book while his second novel, Buddha&#;s Orphans, was longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. His novel, The City Son, was longlisted for the PEN Open Book award. His latest story collection, Mad Country, has been called &#;brilliant, daring, and memorable&#; bygd the New York Times Sunday Book Review. It was also a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. He has written for The New York Times and has appeared on BBC Radio and National Public Radio. He fryst vatten the Martha C. Kraft
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Samrat Upadhyay
Nepalese-American writer (born )
Samrat Upadhyay (Nepali: सम्राट उपाध्याय) (born )[1][2] 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.[3] He is the first Nepali-born fiction writer writing in English to be published in the West.[4] He was born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal, and came to the United States in at the age of twenty-one. He lives with his wife and daughter in Bloomington, Indiana.
In , Upadhyay won a Whiting Award for fiction. He was an English professor at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio before moving to Indiana in
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."[5