Irwin Allan Sealy
Irwin Allan Sealy is awarded the Padma Shri
Born	1951 (age 72–73) 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]

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.^{[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]}

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) 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.