{"id":3862,"date":"2019-04-14T14:56:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T14:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parisinstitute.org\/?page_id=3862"},"modified":"2023-03-04T12:39:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T12:39:09","slug":"amal-chatterjee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/parisinstitute.org\/amal-chatterjee\/","title":{"rendered":"Amal Chatterjee"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3862\" class=\"elementor elementor-3862\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4bb8cb78 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4bb8cb78\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6c893cbe\" data-id=\"6c893cbe\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7550ddb elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"7550ddb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/parisinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/amal-chatterjee-team-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-6688\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parisinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/amal-chatterjee-team-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/parisinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/amal-chatterjee-team-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/parisinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/amal-chatterjee-team-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/parisinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/amal-chatterjee-team.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23d09044 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"23d09044\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>AMAL CHATTERJEE<\/strong><\/span> is an author and creative writing educator based in Amsterdam and Oxford. His writing encompasses novels, short stories, theatre plays, and non-fiction articles.<\/p><p>Born in Sri Lanka, brought up in India, and resident of various countries in Europe, Amal enjoys mixing influences and ideas in his writing. His novel, <em>Across the Lakes<\/em>, was shortlisted for the Crossword India Best Novel Award in 1998, while his short fiction has been published in numerous countries including the Netherlands, India, and the UK. Amal\u2019s non-fiction work has appeared in publications such as <em>Prospect<\/em>, <em>Huffington Post<\/em>, <em>The Independent<\/em>, and <em>Hindustan Times<\/em>, and includes the book <em>Representations of India, 1740-1840<\/em> (1998). Amal has also edited and contributed to <em>Writers on Writing<\/em> (2013), featuring writing from the US, the UK, India, Pakistan, Ireland, and Australia. In 2017 and 2018, two of Amal\u2019s short plays, <em>Dreams of England<\/em> and <em>Finding Jos\u00e9<\/em>, were staged by the Tamasha Theatre Company and Pokfulam Road Productions at London venues including the Arcola and Theatre503. A recipient of the Scottish Arts Council Writers Bursary and shortlisted for a Creative Scotland Award, Amal is an advisor for the Literary Festival of the Hague. He serves as Senior Course Tutor for the Master\u2019s Program in Creative Writing, University of Oxford, and has run workshops and courses in creative and academic writing in Aarhus, Amsterdam, Coimbra, Glasgow, Paris, and Prague.<\/p><p>To find out more about Amal, check out his:<\/p><h3>PICT Courses<\/h3><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/parisinstitute.org\/product\/creative-writing-workshop-fiction-poetry\/\">Creative Writing Workshop (Fiction)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/parisinstitute.org\/product\/creative-writing-workshop-nonfiction\/\">Nonfiction: Writing Creatively<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/parisinstitute.org\/product\/pict-aegean-summer-school\/\">PICT Aegean Summer School<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p><a href=\"mailto:amal@parisinstitute.org\">amal@parisinstitute.org<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMAL CHATTERJEE is an author and creative writing educator based in Amsterdam and Oxford. 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