Amandeep Sandhu Explained

Amandeep Sandhu
Native Name Lang:pa
Native Name:ਅਮਨਦੀਪ ਸੰਧੂ
Birth Date:1973
Language:English
Alma Mater:University of Hyderabad
Genre:Novel

Amandeep Sandhu (born 1973) is a Punjabi writer and journalist who writes in English. His second novel Roll of Honour was nominated for Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction in 2013.[1]

Biography

Sandhu was born in a Sikh family in Rourkela, Odisha in 1973. He did a master's degree in English Literature from the University of Hyderabad.[2] He then did a Diploma in Journalism from Asian School of Journalism.[3]

In 2013, he joined Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany for a 2-year fellowship.[4] In 2021, he was awarded the Homi Bhabha fellowship for 2022-24.[5] [6]

His journalism has appeared in The Caravan[7] and The Hindustan Times.[8]

Works

Sepia Leaves (2008)

Sepia Leaves is a semi-autobiographical novel[9] set in 1970s when emergency was declared by then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi and the protagonist is growing up in Rourkela and his mother has schizophrenia.[10]

Roll of Honour (2012)

Roll of Honour is a semi-autobiographical novel which tells the story of Appu who studies at a military boarding school in the fictional town of Jassabad in Punjab in 1984.[11] [12]

This novel was translated into Punjabi by Daljit Ami under the title Gwah De Fanah Hon Ton Pahilan.

Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines (2019)

Panjab Sandhu's first work of non-fiction in which he looks at the past and present of Punjab, India in the backdrop of Green revolution, Emergency, Punjab insurgency and the present.[13] The book was long-listed for the NIF-Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Award 2020[14] and was shortlisted for the Atta Galatta-BLF Non Fiction Prize 2020.[15]

Punjabi translation of the book, Punjab: Jinhan Rahan Di Main Saar Na Janan, was published in January 2022. It was translated by Dr. Yadwinder Singh and Mangat Ram.[16]

Bravado to Fear to Abandonment (2020)

Bravado to Fear to Abandonment: Mental Health and the COVID-19 Lockdown is an e-book by Sandhu that was published in August 2020. The book highlights that importance of mental health and explores the effects of lockdown in India.[17]

Notes and References

  1. News: Anees Salim bags The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2013. Staff Reporter. 2014-01-14. The Hindu. 2019-11-12. en-IN. 0971-751X.
  2. Web site: Amandeep Singh Sandhu. Akademie Schloss Solitude. 2019-11-06. 2019-11-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20191106040745/http://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/fellowship/fellows/amandeep-singh-sandhu~pe3546/. dead.
  3. Web site: sikhchic.com The Art and Culture of the Diaspora Engaging With Life: Amandeep Singh Sandhu. sikhchic.com. 2019-11-06.
  4. Web site: Amandeep Singh Sandhu. Akademie Schloss Solitude. 2019-11-06. 2019-11-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20191106040745/http://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/fellowship/fellows/amandeep-singh-sandhu~pe3546/. dead.
  5. Web site: Tien . Veronica . 2022-08-15 . India at 75 Contributors A - G . 2023-01-06 . PEN America . en.
  6. Web site: List of Homi Bhabha Fellows . 2023-01-06 . homibhabhafellowships.com.
  7. Web site: Amandeep Sandhu The Caravan. 2021-02-06. caravanmagazine.in.
  8. Web site: 2020-04-22. Lockdown Diaries: Punjab; standing between hunger and India by Amandeep Sandhu. 2021-02-06. Hindustan Times. en.
  9. Web site: Sepia Leaves by Amandeep Sandhu. Goyal. Anuradha. 2010-01-08. Anu Reviews. en-US. 2019-11-06.
  10. Sarin. Alok. 2009-01-01. Not to be loose shunted. Indian Journal of Psychiatry. en. 51. 1. 71. 10.4103/0019-5545.44915 . 35367656 . 0019-5545. free.
  11. News: The need to remember. Balakrishnan. Uday. 2012-12-15. The Hindu. 2019-11-06. en-IN. 0971-751X.
  12. Web site: When a turban defined militancy. The New Indian Express. 2019-11-13.
  13. Web site: In his new book, Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines, author Amandeep Sandhu touches upon Punjab's disquiet. 2019-11-10. The Indian Express. en-IN. 2019-11-12.
  14. Web site: 2020-09-30. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize longlist includes a diverse range of non-fiction work on India. 2022-01-13. The Indian Express. en.
  15. Web site: Shortlist Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize 2020. 2022-01-13. agblfprize.in.
  16. Web site: Punjab : Jinhan Rahan Di Main Saar Na Janan. 2022-01-13. Singh Brothers.
  17. Book: Sandhu, Amandeep. Bravado to Fear to Abandonment: Mental Health and the COVID-19 Lockdown. 2020-08-06. Westland. 1st. English.

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