Author
Amitav Ghosh
Indian novelist and essayist; Jnanpith Award laureate (2018) and author of the Ibis Trilogy
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Historical Indian fiction; climate writingKnown for
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He grew up in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India. He studied at the universities of Delhi and Oxford and published the first of eight novels, The Circle of Reason, in 1986. The first novel in his Ibis trilogy, Sea of Poppies, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He received the Jnanpith Award in 2018.
Born1956 · Calcutta, India
Notable works
The Shadow LinesSea of PoppiesThe Hungry TideThe Great Derangement
HonoursJnanpith Award (2018) · Sahitya Akademi Award · Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society (2020)
The climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of the imagination.— The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016)
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Ghosh's Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel exploring how borders — national and imagined — shape memory, identity, and violence across generations.
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