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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 honour. 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. He has written historical fiction and non-fiction works discussing topics such as colonialism and climate change.. Ghosh studied at The Doon School, Dehradun, and earned a doctorate in social anthropology ...
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Amitav Ghosh has 50 books on Goodreads with 338467 ratings. Amitav Ghosh’s most popular book is Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1).
The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation has awarded the Erasmus Prize 2024 to the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh. He receives the prize for his passionate contribution to the theme ‘imagining the unthinkable’, in which an unprecedented global crisis – climate change – takes shape through the written word.
Amitav Ghosh is a prizewinning Indian novelist and author whose books have been recommended many times on Five Books. Born in Calcutta, he grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria.
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 was born in Calcutta in 1956. He studied in Dehra Dun, New Delhi, Alexandria and Oxford and his first job was at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi.
Feb 13, 2024 · Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Foreign Policy, Literary Hub, and The Millions Ghosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own family―the climax of a yearslong project. When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean but also by the precious commodity ...
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.
The Great Derangement CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE UNTHINKABLE. Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so.
Amitav's writing is splendid, as usual. While the IBIS trilogy took us back in time to the Opium trade period of the Raj, the migration of indentured workers from India to south east Asia, and ultimately to the creation of Hong Kong, cutting a clean swathe through the mists of forgotten history, the Hungry Tide zooms in on the well-known, but little-visited Sunderbans.
