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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.
Flood of Fire. River of Smoke. Sea of Poppies. The Hungry Tide. The Glass Palace. The Calcutta Chromosome. In An Antique Land. The Shadow Lines. The Circle of Reason.
Amitav Ghosh has 53 books on Goodreads with 336188 ratings. Amitav Ghosh’s most popular book is Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1).
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.
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's Favourite Reads. About Amitav in his own words:As a child I loved to read the Bengali writer Sharadindu Bandopadhyay. He wrote in an astonishingly varied number of genres: detective stories, historical fiction, ghost stories, romances and so on.
Feb 13, 2024 · Smoke and Ashes is at once a travelogue, a memoir, and an essay in history, drawing on decades of archival research. In it, Ghosh traces the transformative effect the opium trade had on Britain, India, and China, as well as the world at large.
