Amit Chaudhuri’s memoir Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music, which was published by New York Review Books last spring, is on the shortlist for the UK’s James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography. The shortlist was selected from 400 books. The winner will be announced at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August and will be rewarded a cash prize of £10,000.
To read more about the prize and the other three books on the shortlist, click here.