Amitav Ghosh (Bengali pronunciation: [ɔmitabʱo ɡʱoʃ]; born 11 July 1956) [1] is an Indian writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour.
AMITAV GHOSH grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and has a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford. He is the author of four books of non-fiction, two collections of essays and nine novels.
Amitav Ghosh 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. He won the Jnanpith Award in 2018. His novels include Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire, which collectively form the Ibis trilogy.
For a quarter of a century, Amitav Ghosh has explored the profound questions about humanity. NPR's Scott Simon talks with him about "Wild Fictions: Essays on Literature, Empire, and the Environment."
Amitav Ghosh, born in Calcutta in 1956, is an author whose works transcend boundaries of genre and geography. Educated at the University of Delhi and the University of Oxford, Ghosh’s literary career spans decades, earning him a reputation as one of India’s most celebrated writers. From his debut novel The Circle of Reason (1986) to his latest non-fiction work Smoke and Ashes (2023), Ghosh ...
Amitav Ghosh holds four Lifetime Achievement awards and six honorary doctorates. In 2007 he was awarded the Padma Shri, one of India’s highest honors, by the President of India. In 2010 he was a joint winner, along with Margaret Atwood of a Dan David prize, and 2011 he was awarded the Grand Prix of the Blue Metropolis festival in Montreal.