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Christopher Raja (born 27 September 1974 in Kolkata) is an Australian author of short stories, essays, a play and a novel. He co-authored the play The First Garden with Natasha Raja, which was performed in botanical gardens around Australia and published by Currency Press in 2012. [1] [2] [3] His debut novel, The Burning Elephant was published by Giramondo Publishing in 2015. It was written under a New Work grant awarded by the Literature Board of the Australia Council. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] He has been twice shortlisted for the Northern Territory Writers Centre's Chief Minister’s Book of the Year award. [10] Raja migrated from Kolkata to Melbourne in 1986. He has lived and worked in Alice Springs since 2004.
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