Background
He was born in 1977 in Kolkata, and grew up there and in Mumbai. Chakraborti is the great grandson of the Bengali writer Hemendrakumar Royal
He was born in 1977 in Kolkata, and grew up there and in Mumbai. Chakraborti is the great grandson of the Bengali writer Hemendrakumar Royal
Chakraborti"s first novel Or the Day Seizes You, (Penguin India), was shortlisted for the Hutch-Crossword Book Award in 2006. A Spanish translation entitled Louisiana Vida Quebec Nos Lleva was published in April 2009 by Ediciones Ambar. His second novel, Derangements was published by Harper Collins in August 2008.
The novel Derangements appeared in the United States in July 2010 under the title Shadow Play, published by Street Martin"s Press (Minotaur Books).
Chakraborti"s third novel, Balloonists, was released in June 2010 in India, published by Westland Books. He has also published reviews, short stories and essays in periodicals and anthologies including the Edinburgh Review.
Turbine. The Istanbul Review (forthcoming).
Excess: The Tehelka Book of Stories (Hachette India: 2010). Why We Don"t Talk (Rupa: 2010).
Too Asian, Not Asian Enough (An Anthology of New British Asian Fiction) (Tindal Street Press: 2011), The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature (EUP: 2010), and The Popcorn Essayists: What Movies do to Writers (Westland: 2011). Between 2007 and 2010, Chakraborti worked as a lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh.
He currently lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
Chakraborti"s latest novel, Mumbai Rollercoaster, appeared in India in November 2011, published by Hachette India.