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Cherwell (newspaper)

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{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Cherwell
| logo = Cherwell Newspaper Logo 2021.png
| image = Cherwell Front Page 2021.png
| caption = Front page of ''Cherwell'' on 8 October 2021
| type = Weekly [[newspaper]] during [[Oxford University]] term time
| format = [[Compact (newspaper)|Compact]]
| owners = [[Oxford Student Publications Limited]]
| founders = Cecil Binney and George Adolphus Edinger
| editor = Phoebe Davies and Laurence Cooke
| foundation = {{start date and age|1920}}
| language = [[English language|English]]
| headquarters = Salter’s Yard, [[Oxford]], OX1 4LA
| publishing_country = [[United Kingdom]]
| circulation = c. 15,000<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cherwell.org/advertising/ | title=Advertising | Cherwell}}</ref>
| ISSN = 0308-731X
| eISSN = 1742-3597
| website = [https://cherwell.org/ Cherwell.org]
}}
'''''Cherwell''''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|tʃ|ɑːr|w|ɛ|l}} {{respell|CHAR|wel}}) is a [[student newspaper]] published entirely by students of [[Oxford University]]. Founded in 1920 and named after a [[River Cherwell|local river]], ''Cherwell'' is a subsidiary of independent student publishing house [[OSPL|Oxford Student Publications Ltd]]. Receiving no university funding, the newspaper is one of the oldest and largest student publications in the UK. The paper is published five times each term.

==History==
''Cherwell'' was conceived by two [[Balliol College]] students, [[Cecil Binney]] and [[George Adolphus Edinger]], on a ferry from [[Dover]] to [[Ostend]] during the summer vacation of 1920 while the students were travelling to [[Vienna]] to do relief work for the [[Save the Children]] charity. Edinger recalls the early newspaper having a radical voice: "We were feeling for a new Oxford …. We were anti-convention, anti-Pre War values, [[Pro-feminism|pro-feminist]]. We did not mind shocking and we often did." The publication was independent of the [[University of Oxford]] and it was entirely financed, staffed, and owned by students.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cherwell.org/2016/09/23/cherwell-history-pt-1-the-founders/ | title=Cherwell History Pt 1 – the Founders| date=23 September 2016}}</ref>

Early editions combine this seriousness with whimsy and parochialism. The first editorial gives the newspaper's purpose as being "to exclude all outside influence and interference from our University. Oxford for the Oxonians".{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

''Cherwell'' was the only newspaper printed in Britain during the [[UK General Strike of 1926]], other than the ''[[British Gazette]]'' and the ''[[British Worker]]'', during which time it was produced at the offices of the ''[[Daily Mail]]'' in London.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

Throughout the 1920s ''Cherwell'' had a strong literary focus, and a policy of not editing literary contributions. Undergraduate contributors included [[Evelyn Waugh]], [[Graham Greene]], [[John Betjeman]], [[L. P. Hartley]], [[Cecil Day-Lewis]] and [[W. H. Auden]].{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

The newspaper's focus broadened over the coming decades until January 1953, when the owners of the paper decided to turn it into a university newspaper.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cherwell.org/2016/09/27/cherwell-history-pt-4-the-cherwell-renaissance/ | title=Cherwell History Pt 4 – 'The Cherwell Renaissance'| date=27 September 2016}}</ref> In 1946 ''Cherwell'' was briefly banned by the university for distributing a survey on the sex lives of undergraduates, and in 1954 ran a series of pin-up photographs entitled "Girls of the Year". In 1970 then-editor [[Peter Stothard]] published a current Oxford theatre poster featuring a naked female, possibly a first for a British newspaper. Under his editorship ''Cherwell'' also published a backless photo of Gully Wells, considered very daring for the time. Both editions caused much comment. In 1973 the paper became a 'cause celebre' in the national papers when the ''Cherwell'' published a photo of general editor [[David Soskin]] with a topless model. This resulted in a personal fine by the proctors for David Soskin.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

In 1964, the newspaper's longest-running feature was created, the "[[John Evelyn]]" gossip column, and it has run almost uninterrupted since then; its founding editors were Christopher Meakin and Michael Morris. Meakin then moved over to become editor of ''[[The Isis Magazine|Isis]]'' the following term, in days when the parallel undergraduate magazine (although not then linked with ''Cherwell'') also appeared weekly. Over the decades, many famous people have been the subject of "John Evelyn"{{'}}s wry and faux-condescending style, among them future Pakistani prime minister [[Benazir Bhutto]], politician [[Jonathan Aitken]], and actor [[Imogen Stubbs]]. In 1981, [[Hugh Grant]] is described as "New College's answer to [[Brooke Shields]]", and his unsuccessful attempts to infiltrate a ball with his date are reported. ''Cherwell''{{'}}s Editor in Michaelmas Term 1964 had been [[Patrick Marnham]], who on leaving Oxford became a staff journalist on ''[[Private Eye]]'', the British satirical magazine, and was author of the standard reference book on the history of the magazine which Marnham wrote as its 21st birthday celebration in 1982. The editor for the following Hilary Term 1965 was [[Michael Morris.]], His news editor on Cherwell, Sarah Boyd-Carpenter, is better known today as [[Baroness Hogg]].{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

In the mid-1970s ''Cherwell'' survived one of its periodic financial crises, and politically the paper campaigned against Oxford University's investments in [[apartheid]]-era [[South Africa]].{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

Since

==''Cherwell'' and the English language==

The ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' lists the terms 'sherry party' and 'Marxism' (as pertaining to the [[Marx Brothers]]) as having been coined in ''Cherwell''.<ref>{{cite web |title=sherry party, n. |url=https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/178021?redirectedFrom=sherry+party#eid22876364 |website=[[Oxford English Dictionary]] |access-date=10 March 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Marxism, n.2 |url=https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/233309?rskey=fVwWeR&result=2&isAdvanced=false#eid |website=[[Oxford English Dictionary]] |access-date=10 March 2021}}</ref> Additions from recent decades are lacking probably because ''Cherwell'' is only sporadically lodged at copyright libraries, and because it is not included in electronic text search systems such as [[LexisNexis]]. Xerox University Microfilms has micro-fiche copies of the paper for some years, especially the 1970s.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

==Notable ''Cherwell'' contributors==

*[[Harold Acton]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=smXoCwAAQBAJ|title = The Life of Graham Greene Volume 1: 1904-1939|isbn = 9781473512139|last1 = Sherry|first1 = Norman|date = 26 May 2016| publisher=Random House }}</ref>
*[[Jeffrey Archer]] (Sports columnist, Member of Parliament, novelist, House of Lords)<ref name="WhatIs" />
*[[W. H. Auden]]<ref name="WhatIs" />
*[[John Betjeman]]<ref name="thetimes" />
*[[H. S. Bhabra]] (arts editor; author and broadcaster)<ref name="WhatIs" />
*[[Sarah Boyd-Carpenter]] (editor, journalist on ''[[The Economist]]''; became [[Baroness Hogg]])<ref name="WhatIs" />
*[[Emma Brockes]] (editor; journalist on ''[[The Guardian]]'')<ref name="WhatIs" />
*[[John Brooke-Little]] (editor, founder of the Heraldry Society)<ref name="WhatIs" />
*[[Nick Cohen]] ("John Evelyn"; journalist)<ref name="WhatIs" />
*[[Susan Cooper]] (editor; author of children's books), first woman to edit newspaper<ref>Charles Butler, [https://books.google.com/books?id=fxNyH4uE100C&pg=PA14 ''Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper''] (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), page 14.</ref>
*[[Alex Cox]] (cartoonist, film director)<ref name="WhatIs" />
*[[Michael Crick]] (editor; BBC ''[[Newsnight]]'' and ''[[Channel 4 News]]'' reporter and biographer)<ref name="WhatIs" />
*[[Howard Davies (economist)|Howard Davies]] (writer; economist, CBI director-general; deputy governor [[Bank of England]], director, [[London School of Economics]])<ref name="WhatIs" />
*[[Evan Davis]] (journalist [[BBC Radio 4]] ''[[Today (BBC Radio 4)|Today]]'' presenter)<ref name="WhatIs" />
*[[Hadley Freeman]] (editor, journalist and author)<ref name="WhatIs" />
*[[Graham Greene]]<ref name="thetimes">{{Cite news|last=Bage|first=David Brown and Tom|title=University of Oxford: Cherwell editors quit over racist, explicit parody|newspaper=[[The Times]]|language=en|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/university-of-oxford-cherwell-editors-quit-over-racist-explicit-parody-3g05kt0bnv9|access-date=2021-08-21|issn=0140-0460}}</ref>
*[[Sarah Hargreaves]] (editor; head of Editorial Standards and Training at BBC Television)<ref name="WhatIs" />
*[[Patrick Marnham]] (editor; chief reporter on and historian of ''[[Private Eye]]''; expert on the "Goldenballs" criminal libel case; journalist on ''[[Punch magazine|Punch]]''<ref name="WhatIs">{{Cite web|date=2011-04-18|title=Cherwell – independent since 1920|url=https://cherwell.org/2011/04/18/what-is-cherwell/|access-date=2021-08-21|website=Cherwell|language=en-GB}}</ref>
*[[Simon Jenkins]] ([[Oxford Union]] correspondent; editor of ''[[The Times]]'')<ref name="WhatIs" />
*[[Peter Mandelson]] (journalist, political contributor; Member of Parliament, peer)<ref name="WhatIs" />
*[[Peter Sissons]] (sports editor, 1963; [[BBC]] TV news presenter<ref name="WhatIs" />
*[[Martin Sixsmith]] (editor, sports editor, news editor; former BBC Moscow correspondent)<ref name="WhatIs" />
*[[Christina Lamb]] (journalist; journalist)<ref name="WhatIs" />
*[[Owen Matthews]] ("John Evelyn"; author, journalist)<ref name="WhatIs" />
*[[Evelyn Waugh]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RkEeAQAAIAAJ|title = A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography|isbn = 9780413519306|last1 = Waugh|first1 = Evelyn|year = 1983| publisher=Methuen }}</ref> 

==''Cherwell.org''==
''Cherwell'' has had a website since Trinity 1996, with the current website developed by Nelson Fernandes Serrao, former [[Oxford Student Publications Limited]] chair, in 2022.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cherwell - Oxford's oldest student newspaper |url=https://cherwell.org/ |website=Cherwell |date=15 May 2023}}</ref>

The site is updated every day during term and regularly during the vacation. It contains all of the articles from the print edition, as well as breaking news, videos, features, arts reviews, sport reports and podcasts such as the soap opera podcast ''[[Staircase 22]]''. Students use the website to vote on the paper's regular feature, Fit College and also to post comments on articles.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

In 2008, ''Cherwell'' won the 'Guardian Student Media' award for Best Student Website.<ref>{{cite web|author=Baraniuk, Chris|title=Cherwell win website of the year award|url=http://www.cherwell.org/content/8149|publisher=Cherwell|access-date=2010-03-25|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129025848/http://www.cherwell.org/content/8149|archive-date=29 January 2009}}</ref>

Cherwell was awarded Best Publication<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://twitter.com/spajournalism/status/1504190768059142145 |access-date=2022-11-08 |website=Twitter |language=en}}</ref> in the South East region in the 2022 Student Publication Association Awards. Two news pieces were also shortlisted for the National Awards.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Unger-Verna |first=Marino |date=2022-03-23 |title=#SPANC22 National Awards Shortlists Announced! - |url=http://spajournalism.com/spanc22-national-awards-shortlists-announced/ |access-date=2022-11-08 |language=en-GB}}</ref> It won the Best Publication award for the South East region again in 2024 at the Student Publication Association awards,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cole |first=Ollie |date=2024-02-06 |title=SPA 2024 Regional Award Winners Announced - Student Publication Association |url=https://www.spajournalism.com/spa-2024-regional-award-winners-announced/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |language=en-GB}}</ref> and was shortlisted for the national award. The publication and its staff were shortlisted for eleven SPA national awards in total.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Scott |first=Geri |date=2024-03-04 |title=#SPANC24 shortlist: Are you among the country's best student journalists? - Student Publication Association |url=https://www.spajournalism.com/spanc24-shortlist/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |language=en-GB}}</ref> In 2025, the paper won the award for Best Website and was 'highly commended' for Best Overall Digital Media at the SPA National Conference. Four Cherwell journalists also received individual awards. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Stothard |first=Matthew |date=2025-04-06 |title=Find out who won the SPA 2025 National Awards |url=https://www.spajournalism.com/spa-2025-national-awards-winners-announced/ |access-date=2025-05-14 |language=en-GB}}</ref>

In 2025, Cherwell became the first student newspaper in the UK to become a member of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO).

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
{{Refbegin}}
*''Cherwell'' 75 Years, anniversary edition of ''Cherwell'', November 1995
*[http://www.cherwell.org/2016/09/29/cherwell-history-preface/ A Short History of the Cherwell]
{{Refend}}

==External links==
*[http://www.cherwell.org/ ''Cherwell Online''], the paper's electronic edition, updated every day during term time
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120206181202/http://isismagazine.org.uk/ ''Isis'' Online], the sister publication
*[http://www.bangscience.org/ ''Bang! Science Magazine''], "Oxford's graphically gorgeous science magazine"
*[http://www.ospl.org/ Oxford Student Publications Ltd]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080422185146/http://www.etceterasupplement.org/ ''Etcetera Online''], website for the paper's creative and literary supplement

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Amit Chaudhuri

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[[File:Amit Chaudhuri (Photo by Geoff Pugh) .jpg|thumb|Amit Chaudhuri]]
'''Amit Chaudhuri''' (born 15 May 1962) is a novelist, poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, singer, and music composer from [[India]]. He is currently a professor of creative writing at [[Ashoka University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ashoka.edu.in/faculty#!/amit-chaudhuri-1670|title = Faculty/Staff}}</ref>

He was previously professor of contemporary literature at the [[University of East Anglia]] from 2006 to 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uea.ac.uk/literature/about-us/creative-writing/your-teachers|title=Your Teachers - UEA|website=uea.ac.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-11-18}}</ref> In 2013, he was awarded the Infosys Prize for outstanding contribution to the humanities in Literary Studies<ref>{{Cite web |title=Infosys Prize - Laureates 2012 - Prof. Amit Chaudhuri |url=https://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/laureates/2012/amit-chaudhuri.asp#:~:text=The%20Infosys%20Prize%20for%20Humanities,a%20probing%20sense%20of%20detail |access-date=2021-07-06 |website=www.infosys-science-foundation.com}}</ref>

In January 2018, Chaudhuri began writing a series for ''[[The Paris Review]]'' titled ''The Moment''.<ref>{{cite web |date=23 January 2018 |title=The Paris Review - The Moment of the Houses |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/01/23/the-moment-of-the-houses/}}</ref> He also wrote an occasional column, "Telling Tales", for ''[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|The Telegraph]]''.<ref>Samhita Chakraborty, [https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/there-s-something-about-a-calcutta-childhood-talking-tales-with-amit-chaudhuri/cid/1288995 'There's something about a Calcutta childhood' Talking Tales with Amit Chaudhuri], ''The Telegraph'', 19 February 2014. Accessed 30 August 2020.</ref>

==Personal life==
Amit Chaudhuri was born in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] (renamed [[Kolkata]]) in 1962 and grew up in [[Mumbai|Bombay]] (renamed [[Mumbai]]). {{Citation needed|date=June 2020}} He took his first degree in English literature from [[University College London]], and wrote his doctoral dissertation on [[D. H. Lawrence]]'s poetry at [[Balliol College, Oxford]].{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

He is married to [[Rosinka Chaudhuri]], Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta|url=https://www.cssscal.org/faculty_rosinka_chaudhuri.php|access-date=2020-06-18|website=cssscal.org|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=First ever Global South professor announced {{!}} University of Oxford|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-10-23-first-ever-global-south-professor-announced|access-date=2020-06-18|website=ox.ac.uk|date=23 October 2017 |language=en}}</ref>

==Music==
Chaudhuri is a singer in the North Indian classical tradition, who has performed internationally.<ref name="Donnell2002"/> He learned singing from his mother, Bijoya Chaudhuri, and from the late Pandit Govind Prasad Jaipurwale<ref>{{Cite web|title=Amit Chaudhuri {{!}} Outlook India Magazine|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/amit-chaudhuri/288265|access-date=2020-06-17|website=www.outlookindia.com/}}</ref> of the Kunwar Shyam gharana

==Awards and honours==
*1991 [[Betty Trask Award]] and [[Commonwealth Writers' Prize]] for Best First Book for ''A Strange and Sublime Address''<ref name="Donnell2002">{{cite book|author=Alex Tickell|editor-link=Alison Donnell|editor=Alison Donnell|title=Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VfdpdZ9DwH0C&pg=PA72|year=2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-70025-7|page=72|chapter=Chauduri, Amit}}</ref>
*1994 [[Encore Award]] and Southern Arts Literature Prize, ''Afternoon Raag''<ref name="Donnell2002"/>
*2009 Elected Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Royal Society of Literature » Amit Chaudhuri |url=https://rsliterature.org/fellow/amit-chaudhuri-3/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119051603/https://rsliterature.org/fellow/amit-chaudhuri-3/ |archive-date=19 November 2018 |access-date=2018-11-18 |website=rsliterature.org |language=en-GB}}</ref>
*2012 [[Infosys Prize]] for the Humanities in Literary Studies<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/media-room/press-release-archive/-/asset_publisher/a2jEGMiFHPhv/content/uea-professor-amit-chaudhuri-wins-30-000-literary-prize?inheritRedirect=false|title=UEA professor Amit Chaudhuri wins £30,000 literary prize - Press Release Archive - UEA|website=uea.ac.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-11-18}}</ref>
*2020 Honorary Fellow, Modern Language Association (MLA)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Honorary Members and Fellows |url=https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Grants-and-Awards/Honorary-Members-and-Fellows |access-date=2020-09-21 |website=Modern Language Association |language=en}}</ref>
*2022 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Biography, ''Finding the Raga.<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 August 2022 |title=James Tait Prize |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/university-of-edinburgh-writers-william-golding-ian-mcewan-john-le-carre-b2151945.html?amp |website=[[Independent.co.uk]]}}</ref>''
==Bibliography==

===Novels===
*''A strange and sublime address''. Penguin, 1991, {{ISBN|978-0-143-41944-0}}
*''Afternoon Raag''. Heinemann, 1993, {{ISBN|978-0-434-12349-0}} The book won the Encore Award.<ref name="Long, short and beautifully formed">{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Karl |date=2011-10-23 |title=BOOK REVIEW / Long, short and beautifully formed: 'Afternoon Raag' - Amit Chaudhuri |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/book-review-long-short-and-beautifully-formed-afternoon-raag-amit-chaudhuri-heinemann-13-99-pounds-grandmother-s-tale-r-k-narayan-heinemann-9-99-pounds-1484192.html |access-date=2021-07-06 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref> The 25th anniversary edition was published by Penguin Random House India in 2019 with a foreword by James Wood.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wood |first=James |date=8 June 2019 |title='Afternoon Raag' reminds us Amit Chaudhuri wrote 'autofiction' 25 years before it became a trend |url=https://scroll.in/article/926179/afternoon-raag-reminds-us-amit-chaudhuri-wrote-autofiction-25-years-before-it-became-a-trend |access-date=2021-07-06 |website=Scroll.in |language=en-US}}</ref>
*''Freedom Song''. Picador, 1998; Alfred A. Knopf, 1999, {{ISBN|978-0-375-40427-6}} [http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0599/chaudhuri/excerpt.html excerpt]
*{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z-Fke2tyFX8C&q=amit+chaudhuri| title=A New World| publisher= Picador| year= 2000|isbn=978-0-375-41093-2}}; Random House Digital, Inc., 2002, {{ISBN|978-0-375-72480-0}}
*{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FTUMN00OYoYC&q=amit+chaudhuri| title=The Immortals| publisher= Picador| year= 2009| isbn=978-0-307-27022-1}}
*{{cite book |last=Chaudhuri |first=Amit |author-mask=1 |title=[[Odysseus Abroad]] |publisher=Hamish Hamilton |year=2015}}
* Friend of My Youth, 2017, Penguin Random House India
* {{cite book | last=Chaudhuri | first=A. | title=Sojourn | publisher=Faber & Faber | year=2022 | isbn=978-0-571-36036-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d0JYEAAAQBAJ | display-authors =0}}

===Collected short stories===
*{{cite book |last=Chaudhuri |first=Amit |title=Real time : stories and a reminiscence |publisher=Picador |year=2002}}

===Poetry===
*{{cite book |last=Chaudhuri |first=Amit |title=St. Cyril Road and other poems |publisher=Penguin |year=2005}}

===Libretto===
* ''[[Sukanya (opera)|Sukanya]]'', the only opera by [[Ravi Shankar]]

===Non-fiction===
*{{cite book |last=Chaudhuri |first=Amit |title=D. H. Lawrence and 'difference' : postcoloniality and the poetry of the present |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2003}}
*''Small Orange Flags'' (Seagull, 2003) {{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20070311000351/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/lr/2003/11/02/stories/2003110200200100.htm reviewed]}}
*{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AQeN2PoAx2IC&q=amit+chaudhuri| title=Clearing A Space: Reflections on India, Literature and Culture| publisher= Peter Lang| year= 2008| isbn= 978-1-906165-01-7}}
* ''Calcutta: Two Years in the City'', Union Books (2013)
*{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xlrEDwAAQBAJ| title=Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music| publisher= New York Review Books| year=2021| isbn=978-1-681-37478-9}}

===Edited anthologies===
*{{cite book |editor-last=Chaudhuri |editor-first=Amit |title=The Picador book of modern Indian literature |publisher=Picador |year=2001}}
*''Memory's Gold: Writings on Calcutta'' (2008)

=== Dissertation ===
Chaudhuri's D.Phil. dissertation at Oxford was published by Clarendon Press as a monograph titled ''D.H. Lawrence and Difference'' in 2003. It was called a "classic" by [[Tom Paulin]] in his preface to the book; [[Terry Eagleton]] wrote in the ''London Review of Books'' that it is "a fine book, which if it had expanded its scope and dug rather deeper might even have been even better".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Eagleton |first=Terry |date=2004-02-05 |title=Anti-Humanism |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v26/n03/terry-eagleton/anti-humanism |access-date=2021-07-06 |work=London Review of Books |language=en |volume=26 |issue=3 |issn=0260-9592}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of Indian writers]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{wikiquote}}
*{{official website}}
*[https://twitter.com/AmitChaudhuri Amit Chaudhuri] at [[Twitter]]
*{{British council|id=amit-chaudhuri|name=Amit Chaudhuri}}
*[https://www.munzinger.de/search/go/document.jsp?id=18000000569 Amit Chaudhuri] at the [[Munzinger-Archiv]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200716090127/https://lareviewofbooks.org/author-page/amit-chaudhuri/ Amit Chaudhuri] at the ''[[Los Angeles Review of Books]]''
*[http://www.littlemag.com/mar-apr01/amit.html "Surpanakha"], story at ''The Little Magazine''
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20031116103501/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2003/11/02/stories/2003110200200100.htm "An unlikely radical"], ''[[The Hindu]]''
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040314033740/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040116/asp/calcutta/story_2787444.asp "A date with Amit Chaudhuri"], [[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|''The Telegraph'']]

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Cambridge Students' Union

2025-03-18T12:50:29Z

192.76.8.221: Added in results of most recent set of elections

{{Short description|Representative body for students at the University of Cambridge}}
{{Distinguish|Cambridge Union}}
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{{Infobox Students Union
| name = Cambridge Students' Union
| image = Cambridge su logo high res-39.png
| alt = Logo of Cambridge Students' Union
| motto =
| established =
* 1971 (as ''CSU'', later ''CUSU'')
* 2020 (as ''Cambridge SU'')
| institution = [[University of Cambridge]]
| sabbs =
* President (UG): Sarah Anderson ([[Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge|Fitzwilliam]])
* President (PG): Sumouli Bhattacharjee ([[Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge|Fitzwilliam]])
* Access, Education & Participation (UG): Katie Clarke ([[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge|Sidney Sussex]])
* Access, Education & Participation (PG): Neela Maadhuree ([[Queens' College, Cambridge|Queens']])
* BME: Maroof Rafique ([[Darwin College, Cambridge|Darwin]])
* Disabled Students': Chalo Waya ([[St Catharine's College, Cambridge|St Catharine's]])
* Welfare & Community: Elleni Eshete ([[Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge|Lucy Cavendish]])
* Women's: Nowsha Farha ([[Hughes Hall, Cambridge|Hughes Hall]])
| location = Students' Union, 3rd Floor University Centre, Granta Pl, Mill Lane,
Cambridge, CB2 1RU
| affiliated = [[National Union of Students (United Kingdom)|National Union of Students]], UKCISA
| free =
| homepage = {{official URL}}
}}

'''Cambridge Students' Union''', known as '''Cambridge SU''', is the university-wide representative body for students at the [[University of Cambridge]], [[England]]. Its predecessor union was known as '''Cambridge University Students' Union''' or '''CUSU''' until its dissolution in July 2020.<ref name="welcome">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cambridgesu.co.uk/news/article/jobs/Welcome-we-are-your-new-Students-Union/|title=Welcome, we are your new Students' Union!|website=Cambridge SU|language=en-US|access-date=2020-07-13}}</ref>

Cambridge SU should not be confused with the [[Cambridge Union Society]] (often referred to as simply 'the Union'); membership of both is open to all students at Cambridge, but the Cambridge Union Society is a private society, whereas all students at the University of Cambridge are automatically members of Cambridge SU (although they can opt-out), and Cambridge SU is partially funded by grants from the university.

Until 2020, graduate students at the University of Cambridge were eligible for membership of CUSU as well as the [[University of Cambridge Graduate Union]], specifically for graduate student affairs. In November 2019, students voted by referendum to dissolve both CUSU and the Graduate Union to form one student union, Cambridge SU.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cusu.co.uk/2019/11/22/cambridge-students-voted-yes-to-a-new-single-students-union/|title=Cambridge Students voted yes to a new single students’ union – CUSU|website=CUSU|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-22}}</ref> The new single Students' Union was established on 13 July 2020.<ref name="welcome" />

==History==
CUSU was founded as the Cambridge Students' Union (CSU) in 1971 to represent all higher education students studying in Cambridge, that is students attending the University of Cambridge plus undergraduates at CCAT (the then Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology, which in 1993 became Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, renamed to [[Anglia Ruskin University]] in 2005). CSU also represented students at Homerton College, then a separate teacher training college in the city.

CSU during its early years from 1971 to 1974 received support from CCAT Students' Union as CCATSU was from the 1960s the only large NUS-affiliated, and conventionally funded, students' union in Cambridge. CSU in turn supported CCATSU in its campaigns to get more student housing provided for CCAT degree students, a serious issue for the college by the early 1970s. CCATSU and CSU went their separate ways after 1974.

CSU was formally recognised by the University of Cambridge authorities on 25 May 1984 and renamed, following a student referendum in March 1985, as CUSU – Cambridge University Students Union. CSU's second president, in 1972, was [[Charles Clarke]], later a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]], [[Secretary of State for Education and Skills|Secretary of State for Education]] and [[Secretary of State for the Home Department|Home Secretary]].

There had been previous university-wide groups, such as CAMNUS (Cambridge [[National Union of Students (United Kingdom)|NUS]]), which was founded in 1964 by [[Gordon Heald]], [[Cyril Bibby|John Bibby]] and others. CAMNUS arranged certain university-wide student facilities, such as 'CAMNUS Coaches' (an end-of-term bus service to all parts of the country), and an inter-collegiate mail service.

Following a referendum of members of CUSU and the [[University of Cambridge Graduate Union]] in 2019, the two agreed to merge. The new union, Cambridge SU, was established in July 2020.<ref name="welcome" />

Between 2020 and 2024, Cambridge SU had seven ''SU Campaigns'', which were free to differ from the central SU on policy matters, with six of which representing a particular subset of students. They were:
* LGBT+ ([[LGBT|Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender]])
* International Students' Campaign: international students
* Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Campaign: [[Black and minority ethnic]] students
* Women's Campaign, known as "WomCam"
* Disabled Students' Campaign
* Class Act, representing students from working-class and disadvantaged educational backgrounds
* Ethical Affairs Campaign, which leads Cambridge SU's work on ethical and environmental issues in the university and wider society

The Campaigns were dissolved in the 2024 Governance Review.<ref name="Review">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cambridgesu.co.uk/news/article/cambridgesu/Change-at-yourSU/|title=What's Changing at Your SU|website=Cambridge SU|language=en-US|access-date=2025-01-13}}</ref>

==Officers==
Cambridge SU holds elections annually for 8 full-time officers, several part-time officers and a number of delegates to the [[National Union of Students (United Kingdom)|National Union of Students]] (NUS) Annual Conference.

The full-time officers take a one-year sabbatical from their studies (or directly after they have graduated) and are:
*President (PG)
*President (UG)
*Access, Education and Participation Officer (PG)
*Access, Education and Participation Officer (UG)
*Disabled Students' Officer
*Welfare & Community Officer
*Women's Officer
*BME Officer

Cambridge SU is unusual in having 8 full time sabbatical roles, with this number placing it at the [[Sabbatical officer|highest end]] of all UK students' unions in terms of number of full-time, elected officers. This number is due to be reduced to five for 2025-26 onwards as part of the 2024 Governance Review.<ref name="Review">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cambridgesu.co.uk/news/article/cambridgesu/Change-at-yourSU/|title=What's Changing at Your SU|website=Cambridge SU|language=en-US|access-date=2025-01-13}}</ref>

==Controversy==

In March 2006, the largest Cambridge college students' union, [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College Students' Union]] voted to disaffiliate from CUSU for the academic year 2006/2007. Several other colleges were reported to be also considering the option.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/73 |title=Trinity reaffiliation greeted with “absolute apathy”; Varsity Online |publisher=Varsity.co.uk |access-date=2023-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523182524/https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/73 |archive-date=2023-05-23 }}</ref> Trinity College Students' Union reaffiliated in early 2007, following re-engagement work by the incumbent sabbatical officers. On 14 November 2010, both the JCR and MCR of [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge|Corpus Christi College]] disaffiliated, following a college-wide ballot in which 71% of undergraduates and 86% of postgraduates voted in favour of disaffiliation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/jcr/news/256|title=corpusJCR – News article|website=cam.ac.uk|access-date=15 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140119074602/http://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/jcr/news/256#|archive-date=2014-01-19|url-status=dead}}</ref> Also, in November 2013 [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge|Gonville and Caius College]] disaffiliated following a referendum which saw a result of 213 votes for disaffiliation and 91 votes against.<ref>{{cite news|title=Caius votes to disaffiliate|url=http://www.varsity.co.uk/news/6577}}</ref>

In 2015 the university had to give CUSU a £100,000 bailout, but incumbent president Priscilla Mensah denied that this was due to financial mismanagement.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.varsity.co.uk/news/8926|title=CUSU in cash crisis|website=varsity.co.uk|access-date=15 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://thetab.com/uk/cambridge/2015/10/02/cusu-cu-screwed-finances-goes-astray-57495|title=Another £100,000 please! CUSU is CU-Screwed after finance goes astray|date=2 October 2015|website=thetab.com|access-date=15 April 2018}}</ref>

In 2019, CUSU presented a surplus budget, ending what the Union described as “a few difficult years in recent history” with regards to its financial situation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/17289|title=CUSU 2019–20 budget predicts surplus for first time in recent years|website=varsity.co.uk|access-date=1 April 2019}}</ref>

==Former officers==
Notable former officers and sabbaticals include:
* [[Charles Clarke]] ([[King's College, Cambridge|King's]]), former [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Norwich South (UK Parliament constituency)|Norwich South]] and [[Home Secretary]], President 1971–72
* [[Mike Gapes]] ([[Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge|Fitzwilliam]]), former [[Labour and Co-operative]] and, subsequently, [[Change UK]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Ilford South (UK Parliament constituency)|Ilford South]], Secretary 1973
* [[Tom Hayhoe]] ([[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge|Corpus Christi]]), Chairman of [[West London NHS Trust]], President 1977–78
* [[David Lidington]] ([[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge|Sidney Sussex]]), former [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Aylesbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Aylesbury]] and [[Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster]], Deputy President 1977–78
* [[Natalie Ceeney]] ([[Newnham College, Cambridge|Newnham]]), senior civil servant and businessperson, President 1990–91
* [[Paul Lewis (journalist)|Paul Lewis]] ([[King's College, Cambridge|King's]]), journalist at [[The Guardian]], President 2002–03
* [[Wes Streeting]] ([[Selwyn College, Cambridge|Selwyn]]), [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Ilford North (UK Parliament constituency)|Ilford North]] and former President of the [[National Union of Students (United Kingdom)|National Union of Students]] (NUS), President 2004–05
* [[Mark Fletcher (politician)|Mark Fletcher]] ([[Jesus College, Cambridge|Jesus]]), [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Bolsover (UK Parliament constituency)|Bolsover]], President 2007–09
* [[Lola Olufemi]] ([[Selwyn College, Cambridge|Selwyn]]), writer and activist, Women's Officer 2017–18

==Sabbatical Officers==
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the 8 Sabbatical Officer roles elected at Cambridge SU were: President (UG), President (PG), Access, Education and Participation Officer (UG), Access, Education and Participation Officer (PG), BME Officer, Disabled Students' Officer, Welfare and Community Officer, and Women's Officer.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Cambridge SU Sabbatical Officers
|-
! Year !! President (UG)!! President (PG) !! Access, Education and Participation Officer (UG) !! Education and Participation Officer (PG) !! BME Officer !! Disabled Students' Officer !! Welfare and Community Officer !! Women's Officer
|-
| 2020-21 <ref name="2020 Election">{{Cite web|url=https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/18910|title=Few surprises in SU Sabbatical Officer elections, with only one role contested|access-date=2025-01-13}}</ref> || Ben Margolis || Aastha Dahal || Esme Cavendish || Siyang Wei || Howard Chae || Kerensa Gaunt || Alice Gilderdale || Chloe Newbold
|-
| 2021-22 <ref name="2021 Election">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cambridgesu.co.uk/news/article/cambridgesu/Lent-Elections-Meet-Your-Winners/|title=Lent Elections: Meet Your Winners! |access-date=2025-01-13}}</ref> || Zak Coleman || Anjum Nahar || Zaynab Ahmed || Amelia Jabry || Tara Choudhury || Anna Ward || Ben Dalitz || Milo Eyre-Morgan
|-
| 2022-23 <ref name="2022 Election">{{Cite web|url=https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/23303|title=Zaynab Ahmed elected SU President|access-date=2025-01-13}}</ref> || Zaynab Ahmed || Amelia Jabry || Neve Atkinson || Savannah Phillips || Kefeshe Bernard || Elia Chitwa || Daisy Thomas || Eseosa Akojie
|-
| 2023-24 <ref name="2023 Election">{{Cite web|url=https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/25249|title=New SU president: ‘We’re in a pit and we’ve got to get out of it’|access-date=2025-01-13}}</ref> || Fergus Kirman || Vareesh Pratap || Caredig ap Tomos || Ani Perysinakis || Maroof Rafique || Ell Gardner-Thomas || Harvey Brown || Rosie Freeman
|-
| 2024-25 <ref name="2024 Election">{{Cite web|url=https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/27233|title=Sarah Anderson wins SU presidency|access-date=2025-01-13}}</ref> || Sarah Anderson || Sumouli Bhattacharjee || Katie Clarke || Neela Maadhuree || Maroof Rafique || Chalo Waya|| Elleni Eshete || Nowsha Farha
|}

In 2025, for the first time, 5 Sabbatical Officers were elected to serve (in 2025-26) in the new roles created in the 2024 Governance Review. These roles were: President (UG), President (PG), Vice-President (Education & Widening Participation), Vice-President (Liberation & Welfare), Vice-President (Student Community & Societies).

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Cambridge SU Sabbatical Officers
|-
! Year !! President (UG)!! President (PG) !! Vice-President (Education & Widening Participation) !! Vice-President (Liberation & Welfare) !! Vice-President (Student Community & Societies)
|-
| 2025-26 <ref name="2025 Election">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cambridgesu.co.uk/news/article/cambridgesu/Leadership-Elections-Results-Announced/|title=Leadership Elections: Results Announced|access-date=2025-03-18}}</ref> || Matthew Copeman || Augustin Denis || Jessica Asiedu-Kwatchey || Melanie Benedict || Olivia Ledger
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Official website}}

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Adrian Lyne

2025-02-14T18:27:57Z

192.76.8.221:

{{Short description|English film director (born 1941)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}
{{EngvarB|date=January 2020}}
{{BLP sources|date = January 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Adrian Lyne
| image =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1941|3|4}}
| birth_place = [[Peterborough]], England
| occupation = {{hlist|Film director|film producer|screenwriter}}
| years_active = {{hlist|1976–present}}
| spouse = {{marriage|Samantha Lyne|1974}}
| children= 4
| relatives = [[Oliver Lyne]] (brother)
| education = [[Highgate School]]
}}
'''Adrian Lyne''' (born 4 March 1941)<ref name="BFI">{{cite news |title=Adrian Lyne |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9eeba1a5 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319114117/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9eeba1a5 |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 March 2017 |access-date=12 January 2022 |agency=[[British Film Institute]]}}</ref> is an English film director. Lyne is known for sexually charged narratives that explore conflicting passions, the power of seduction, moral ambiguity, betrayal, and the indelibility of infidelity.<ref>{{cite news |title=Adrian Lyne & Nicole Kidman Team For Hot AFM Pic 'Silent Wife' |url=https://deadline.com/2015/10/adrian-lyne-nicole-kidman-silent-wife-infidelity-thriller-afm-1201597714/ |access-date=21 January 2022 |work=Deadline}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Come Back to the Cinema Plex, Adrian Lyne|url=https://museemagazine.com/features/2019/1/24/come-back-to-the-cinema-plex-adrian-lyne-adrian-lyne |access-date=21 January 2022 |work=Musée magazine|quote=Your films gather characters' dysfunctions and mend their gloomy lives through the delicate haze of soft and natural lighting}}</ref>

In the mid 1970s, he directed television commercials for DIM Lingerie (France), but Lyne's career in feature length films began in 1980 with ''[[Foxes (1980 film)|Foxes]],'' and would later direct ''[[Flashdance]]'', ''[[9½ Weeks]]'', ''[[Fatal Attraction]]'', ''[[Jacob's Ladder (1990 film)|Jacob's Ladder]]'', ''[[Indecent Proposal]]'', ''[[Lolita (1997 film)|Lolita]]'', and ''[[Unfaithful (2002 film)|Unfaithful]]''. Lyne received a nomination for the [[Academy Award for Best Director]] for ''Fatal Attraction''.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1988| title = 1988 {{!}} Oscars.org {{!}} Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences| date = 4 December 2015}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Lyne was born in [[Peterborough]], [[Northamptonshire]] (now [[Cambridgeshire]]) and raised in London.<ref name="BFI"/> He was educated at [[Highgate School]] in [[North London]];<ref name="Highgate">Highgate School Register 7th Edn 1833–1988, Ed. Patrick Hughes & Ian F Davies 1989</ref> together with his younger brother, [[Oliver Lyne]] (1944–2005), a classical scholar and academic at the University of Oxford.<ref>{{cite news|title=Professor Oliver Lyne: Olympian Balliol classicist|first=Bruno|last=Currie|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-oliver-lyne-6149447.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226223304/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-oliver-lyne-6149447.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 February 2014|access-date=17 February 2014|newspaper=The Independent|date=1 April 2005}}</ref> Their father was a teacher at the school.<ref name="Highgate"/>

== Career ==
An avid moviegoer during his school days at [[Highgate School|Highgate]], he was inspired to make his own films by the work of [[French New Wave]] directors like [[Jean Luc Godard]], [[François Truffaut]] and [[Claude Chabrol]]. Lyne was among a generation of British directors in the 1970s, including [[Ridley Scott]], [[Alan Parker]], [[Tony Scott]] and [[Hugh Hudson]], who would begin their career making television commercials before going on to have major success in films.<ref name="commercials">{{cite news |last1=Delaney |first1=Sam |title=The British admen who saved Hollywood |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/aug/24/1 |access-date=29 May 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=23 August 2007}}</ref> Their techniques in making commercials were admired and copied by major names in the film industry, with Lyne stating: "I remember making this advertisement up in [[Yorkshire]] when I got a message that [[Stanley Kubrick]] had called. He'd seen an ad I'd made for milk in which I'd used a particular type of graduated filter. He wanted to know exactly which filter I'd used."<ref name="commercials"/> Two of Lyne's early short films, ''[[The Table (1973 film)|The Table]]'' (1973) and ''[[Mr Smith (1976 film)|Mr Smith]]'' (1976), were entries in the [[London Film Festival]]. Lyne made his feature filmmaking debut in 1980 with ''[[Foxes (film)|Foxes]]'', a look at the friendship of four teenage girls growing up in the [[San Fernando Valley]], starring [[Jodie Foster]].

His next film, 1983's ''[[Flashdance]]'', was an innovative blend of rock 'n' roll, new dance styles, and visual imagery. Lyne's visuals (reminiscent of his 1970s UK commercials for [[Brutus Jeans]]), wedded to Giorgio Moroder's score, propelled the story of an aspiring ballerina ([[Jennifer Beals]], in her film debut) who works in a factory by day and dances in a club at night.<ref name="commercials"/> The film generated over $200 million worldwide and was the third highest-grossing film of 1983.<ref name=Litwak>{{cite book |last1=Litwak |first1=Mark |title=Reel Power: The Struggle for Influence and Success in the New Hollywood |year=1986 |publisher=William Morrow & Co. |location=New York |isbn=0-688-04889-7 |page=91 }}</ref> The film was also nominated for four Academy Awards, with the theme song, "What a Feeling", winning the Oscar for Best Song. In 1986, Lyne attracted controversy with ''[[9½ Weeks]]''. Based on a novel by [[Ingeborg Day|Elizabeth McNeill]], the tale of a sexually abusive relationship starred [[Mickey Rourke]] and [[Kim Basinger]]. Although considered too explicit by its American distributor, and cut for U.S. release, it became a huge hit abroad in its unedited version.

Lyne's fourth film was ''[[Fatal Attraction]]'', which generated over $320 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of 1987.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/1987/ | title = Fatal Attraction | website = [[Box Office Mojo]] | access-date = 5 August 2007 }}</ref> Based on [[James Dearden]]'s British erotic thriller ''[[Diversion (film)|Diversion]]'', the story of a happily married lawyer ([[Michael Douglas]]) who tries to break off an affair with an attractive single woman ([[Glenn Close]]), only to have her become obsessed with him and endanger his family, the film struck a chord with audiences. Deemed "the [[zeitgeist]] hit of the decade" by ''Time'' magazine, ''Fatal Attraction'' earned six Academy Award nominations including [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]], [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] (Glenn Close), [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] ([[Anne Archer]]), Best Screenplay and [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Editing]].

In 1990, Lyne directed ''[[Jacob's Ladder (1990 film)|Jacob's Ladder]]''. Written by Academy Award-winner [[Bruce Joel Rubin]] (''[[Ghost (1990 film)|Ghost]]'') and starring [[Tim Robbins]], [[Elizabeth Peña]] and [[Danny Aiello]], the film takes audiences on a journey through [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]] veteran Jacob Singer's (Robbins) post-war life where apparent reality is interleaved with nightmarish hallucinations, leading to a [[plot twist|twist ending]]. With ''[[Indecent Proposal]]'', Lyne examined how the sexes look at relationships and money. Starring [[Robert Redford]], [[Woody Harrelson]] and [[Demi Moore]], ''Indecent Proposal'' became a worldwide box office hit.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2640020993/weekend/ | title = Indecent Proposal | website = [[Box Office Mojo]] | access-date = 29 May 2010 }}</ref>

Lyne's version of ''[[Lolita (1997 film)|Lolita]]'', based on the [[Lolita|novel]] by [[Vladimir Nabokov]] and starring [[Jeremy Irons]], was filmed for theatrical release in 1997, but American distributors shied away from it due to its controversial subject matter. The film premiered on [[Showtime (TV channel)|Showtime]] and was so well-received that national theatrical distribution soon followed. His next film, ''[[Unfaithful (2002 film)|Unfaithful]]'', was loosely based on [[Claude Chabrol]]'s ''[[La Femme Infidèle]]''. The movie stars [[Richard Gere]] and [[Diane Lane]] in a story of a marriage threatened by infidelity and murder. Lane received much praise for her performance, and was nominated for a [[Golden Globe Award]] and an Academy Award for Best Actress.

=== Twenty-year gap ===
After ''Unfaithful'', Lyne did not direct another film for twenty years.<ref name=Deep>{{cite web| url = https://deadline.com/2019/08/adrian-lyne-deep-water-ben-affleck-ana-de-armas-patricia-highsmith-adaptation-new-regency-1202658671/| title = Adrian Lyne Deep Water Ana de Armas, Ben Affleck Patricia Highsmith novel – Deadline| date = August 2019}}</ref>

In 2005, Lyne was reportedly linked to [[Warner Bros.]]' biopic of [[Johnny Stompanato]], with [[Keanu Reeves]] portraying him and [[Catherine Zeta-Jones]] set to star as [[Lana Turner]].<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Fleming|first=Michael|url=https://variety.com/2005/film/features/lana-turns-heads-at-wb-1117927973/|title=Lana turns heads at WB|magazine=Variety|date=August 23, 2005}}</ref> In 2006, Lyne was committed to directing ''Two Minutes to Midnight'', a [[Sheldon Turner]]-scripted thriller for [[20th Century Fox]].<ref>{{cite magazine|author1=Gardner, Chris|author2=Fleming, Michael|url=https://variety.com/2006/film/news/lyne-counts-minutes-1117939602/|title=Lyne counts 'Minutes'|magazine=Variety|date=March 12, 2006}}</ref> In 2007, he was circling to direct ''Prince of Thieves'', which later became ''[[The Town (2010 film)|The Town]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Fleming|first=Michael|url=https://variety.com/2007/film/features/rush-to-judgment-4-1117970086/|title=Rush to judgment|magazine=Variety|date=August 10, 2007}}</ref> In 2012, Lyne was in talks to direct a film adaptation of the [[John Grisham]] novel ''[[The Associate (novel)|The Associate]]''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Trumbore|first=Dave|title=Adrian Lyne May Direct the Adaptation of John Grisham's THE ASSOCIATE|date=April 13, 2012|website=Collider|url=https://collider.com/john-grisham-the-associate-adrian-lyne/amp/|accessdate=June 19, 2022}}</ref> In 2015, there was talk of him directing [[Nicole Kidman]] in an adaptation of the 2013 [[A.S.A. Harrison]] novel ''Silent Wife''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2015/10/adrian-lyne-nicole-kidman-silent-wife-infidelity-thriller-afm-1201597714/|title=Adrian Lyne & Nicole Kidman Team for Hot AFM Pic 'Silent Wife'|date=30 October 2015}}</ref> The next year, [[Michael Douglas]] and [[Halle Berry]] were connected to another Lyne project called ''Silence''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2016/05/halle-berry-michael-douglas-silence-movie-adrian-lyne-1201755256/|title = Michael Douglas & Halle Berry to Star in Adrian Lyne's 'Silence' – Cannes|date = 13 May 2016}}</ref> As of 2022, none of these projects have come to fruition.

=== Return to directing ===
He most recently directed the erotic thriller ''[[Deep Water (2022 film)|Deep Water]]'', based on [[Deep Water (Highsmith novel)|a novel]] by [[Patricia Highsmith]].<ref name=Deep/> Disney's [[20th Century Studios]] released the film on [[Hulu]] in the United States and on [[Amazon Prime Video]] in other countries.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Palmer |first1=Roger |title="Deep Water" Moving To Hulu |url=https://whatsondisneyplus.com/deep-water-moving-to-hulu/ |access-date=13 December 2021 |publisher=What's on Disney Plus |date=13 December 2021}}</ref> It is Lyne's first directorial effort in 20 years, and the first erotic film released by Disney since ''[[Color of Night]]'' in 1994.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-04-03-ca-41618-story.html| title = Full Frontal Nudity From the Company That Patented the Cute Wiggly Tush - Los Angeles Times| website = [[Los Angeles Times]]| date = 3 April 1994}} </ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://deadline.com/2019/08/adrian-lyne-deep-water-ben-affleck-ana-de-armas-patricia-highsmith-adaptation-new-regency-1202658671/| title = New Regency Bringing Adrian Lyne Back To Directing With 'Deep Water;' Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas In Talks For Patricia Highsmith Adaptation| date = August 2019}}</ref>

== Filmography ==
{| class="wikitable sortable unsortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! width=65| Director
! width=65| Writer
! Notes
|-
| 1973
| ''[[The Table (1973 film)|The Table]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| rowspan="2" | Short films
|-
| 1976
| ''[[Mr Smith (1976 film)|Mr. Smith]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
|-
| 1980
| ''[[Foxes (film)|Foxes]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
|-
| 1983
| ''[[Flashdance]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
|-
| 1986
| ''[[9½ Weeks]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
|-
| 1987
| ''[[Fatal Attraction]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
|-
| 1990
| ''[[Jacob's Ladder (1990 film)|Jacob's Ladder]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
|-
| 1993
| ''[[Indecent Proposal]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
|-
| 1997
| ''[[Lolita (1997 film)|Lolita]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
|-
| 2002
| ''[[Unfaithful (2002 film)|Unfaithful]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
| Also producer
|-
| 2018
| ''[[Back Roads (2018 film)|Back Roads]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| Initially attached to direct<ref>{{cite web|last=McClintock|first=Pamela|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cannes-adrian-lyne-back-roads-327319/|title=Cannes 2012: Adrian Lyne's 'Back Roads' Finally Gets Financing (Exclusive)|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=May 21, 2012}}</ref>
|-
| 2022
| ''[[Deep Water (2022 film)|Deep Water]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
|}

== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Portal|Biography}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170319114117/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9eeba1a5 Adrian Lyne] at the [[British Film Institute]]
* {{IMDb name|id=0001490|name=Adrian Lyne}}

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