Allan Sealy

Irwin Allan Sealy
Irwin Allan Sealy is awarded the Padma Shri
Born	1951 (age 73–74) Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Pen name	Allan Sealy
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]

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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

• 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]

• The Trotter-Nama: A Chronicle, (New York: Knopf, 1988; London: Penguin Books, 1990; New York: Viking Penguin, 1990) ISBN 0-14-010210-8.
• Hero: A Fable, (London: Secker and Warburg, 1991, 288pp) ISBN 0-436-44478-X.
• From Yukon to Yukatan: a Western Journey, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1994., 323pp) ISBN 0-436-44479-8.
• The Everest Hotel: A Calendar, (London: Doubleday, 1998, 331pp) ISBN 0-385-41033-6.
• The Brainfever Bird, (London: Picador, 2003, 320pp) ISBN 0-330-41143-8.
• Red: An Alphabet (London: Picador, 2006, 343pp) ISBN 0-330-41147-0.
• The Small Wild Goose Pagoda: An Almanack (New Delhi: Aleph, 2014, 300pp) ISBN 978-9383064489.
• Zelaldinus: A Masque (New Delhi: Aleph/Almost Island, 2017, 168pp) ISBN 978-9386021076.
• Asoca: A Sutra (New Delhi: Penguin Random House, 2021, 392pp) ISBN 978-9354920639.

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

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