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Arun Joshi
Novelist

Arun Joshi

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Writing The Strange Case of Billy Biswas and The Last Labyrinth.

The Strange Case of Billy Biswas · The Apprentice

Born
7 July 1939
Birthplace
Varanasi
Died
April 1993

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Arun Joshi

Arun Joshi was an Indian novelist whose fiction explored alienation and unsettled identities.

Early life

Childhood

Grew up in Varanasi, where his father was vice-chancellor of Banaras Hindu University.

Career

  1. 1960s

    Industry

    Worked in recruitment and training at Delhi Cloth & General Mills.

  2. 1968

    First novel

    Published The Foreigner.

  3. 1982

    Sahitya Akademi

    Received the award for The Last Labyrinth.

Selected work

The Strange Case of Billy Biswas

A novel about a returning expatriate.

The Apprentice

A novel.

The Last Labyrinth

His Sahitya Akademi-winning novel.

Beyond work

Family

Married Rukmini Lal and largely avoided literary publicity.

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