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Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956) is an Indian writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honor. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia . [3]
Born in Kolkata in 1956, Ghosh studied social anthropology at Oxford and divides his time between India and the United States. He has produced a vast body of work, made up of both historical novels and journalistic essays that carry the reader across continents and oceans.
May 6, 2024 · Amitav Ghosh (born July 11, 1956, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India) is an Indian-born writer whose ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and Southeast Asia.
Amitav Ghosh’s writing deals in the epic themes of travel and diaspora, history and memory, political struggle and communal violence, love and loss, while all the time crossing the generic boundaries between anthropology and art work.
Biography. Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria and is the author of The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land , Dancing in Cambodia , The Calcutta Chromosome , The Glass Palace , The Hungry Tide , and The Ibis Trilogy, consisting of Sea of ...
Amitav Ghosh is one of India's best-known writers. His books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, Incendiary Circumstances, The Hungry Tide. His most recent novel, Sea of Poppies, is the first volume of the Ibis Trilogy.
Amitav Ghosh has 53 books on Goodreads with 335745 ratings. Amitav Ghosh’s most popular book is Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1).
Oct 25, 2021 · In 2007, Amitav Ghosh famously pulled out his celebrated novel, The Glass Palace, from consideration for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, citing his objection to the usage of the term ‘commonwealth’ and the colonial history associated with it as the reason for his withdrawal.
Aug 31, 2022 · Amitav Ghosh is an Indian-born scholar, novelist, and nonfiction writer. His many books include The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable and The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis.
Amitav Ghosh's novel Sea of Poppies was shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. Amitav Ghosh grew up in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Iran, and his work - both fiction and non-fiction - reflects his fascination with realms touched by the Indian Ocean.
