Allan Sealy Explained

Irwin Allan Sealy
Pseudonym:	Allan Sealy
Birth Place:	Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Occupation:	Writer
Nationality:	Indian
Period:	1990-

Irwin Allan Sealy (born 1951) is an Indian writer. 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.^[3]

He now lives in Dehradun, Uttarakhand.

Awards

• Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book, Europe and South Asia, in 1989
• Sahitya Akademi Award in 1991 ^[4]
• Crossword Book Award in 1998
• Padma Shri in 2012^[5]

List of works

• The Trotter-Nama: A Chronicle, (New York: Knopf, 1988; London: Penguin Books, 1990; New York: Viking Penguin, 1990) .
• Hero: A Fable, (London: Secker and Warburg, 1991, 288pp) .
• From Yukon to Yukatan: a Western Journey, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1994., 323pp) .
• The Everest Hotel: A Calendar, (London: Doubleday, 1998, 331pp) .
• The Brainfever Bird, (London: Picador, 2003, 320pp) .
• Red: An Alphabet (London: Picador, 2006, 343pp) .
• The Small Wild Goose Pagoda: An Almanack (New Delhi: Aleph, 2014, 300pp) .
• Zelaldinus: A Masque (New Delhi: Aleph/Almost Island, 2017, 168pp) .
• Asoca: A Sutra (New Delhi: Penguin Random House, 2021, 392pp) .

External links

• • I Allan Sealy at The South Asian Literary Recordings Project, Library of Congress; New Delhi Office, India

Notes and References

1. http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,919787,00.html Puppets on a String Mithu Banerji in the Observer 23 March 2003 Guardian Unlimited
2. Web site: St. Stephen's College . Delhi . 2000-08-01 . Distinguished Alumni . St. Stephen's College, Delhi . 2007-06-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070928051504/http://www.ststephens.edu/StStephens/httpdocs/alumni/hof.htm . 2007-09-28 . dead .
3. Web site: I. Allan Sealy -- English Writer: The South Asian Literary Recordings Project (Library of Congress New Delhi Office). 2020-07-20. www.loc.gov.
4. http://www.sahitya-akademi.org/sahitya-akademi/awa10304.htm#english Award for writing in English in 1991
5. Web site: Padma Awards . Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India . 2015 . 21 July 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf . 15 October 2015 .