About Amitav Ghosh
AMITAV GHOSH is one of the most widely known Indians writing in English today.
Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He studied at St. Stephen's College, Delhi; St. Edmund Hall, Oxford; and the Faculty of Arts, University of Alexandria. He worked for the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi and he earned his doctorate in Oxford before he wrote his first novel.
"The Circle of Reason" won the Prix Medici Estranger, one of France's top literary awards, and "The Shadow Lines" won the Sahitya Akademi Award, India's most prestigious literary prize.
"The Calcutta Chromosome" won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for 1997 and "The Glass Palace" won the Grand Prize for Fiction at the Frankfurt International e-Book Awards in 2001.
Ghosh was the winner of the 1999 Pushcart Prize, a leading literary award, for an essay that was published in the Kenyon Review.
In 1999, Ghosh joined the faculty at Queens College in the City University of New York as Distinguished Professor in the Dept. of Comparative Literature.
He lives with his wife, Deborah Baker (who is a senior editor at Little Brown and Co.), and their children, in Brooklyn, USA.
Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He studied at St. Stephen's College, Delhi; St. Edmund Hall, Oxford; and the Faculty of Arts, University of Alexandria. He worked for the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi and he earned his doctorate in Oxford before he wrote his first novel.
"The Circle of Reason" won the Prix Medici Estranger, one of France's top literary awards, and "The Shadow Lines" won the Sahitya Akademi Award, India's most prestigious literary prize.
"The Calcutta Chromosome" won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for 1997 and "The Glass Palace" won the Grand Prize for Fiction at the Frankfurt International e-Book Awards in 2001.
Ghosh was the winner of the 1999 Pushcart Prize, a leading literary award, for an essay that was published in the Kenyon Review.
In 1999, Ghosh joined the faculty at Queens College in the City University of New York as Distinguished Professor in the Dept. of Comparative Literature.
He lives with his wife, Deborah Baker (who is a senior editor at Little Brown and Co.), and their children, in Brooklyn, USA.
Novels
The Circle of Reason (1986)
The Shadow Lines (1988)
The Calcutta Chromosome (1996)
The Glass Palace (2000)
The Hungry Tide (2004)
The Shadow Lines (1988)
The Calcutta Chromosome (1996)
The Glass Palace (2000)
The Hungry Tide (2004)
Non fiction
In an Antique Land (1992)
Dancing in Cambodia and At Large in Burma (1998)
The Imam and the Indian (2002)
Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times (2006)
Dancing in Cambodia and At Large in Burma (1998)
The Imam and the Indian (2002)
Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times (2006)
Awards
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Links to other websites
| Amitav Ghosh official site |
Amitav Ghosh recommends
 Beasts of No Nation (2005) Uzodinma Iweala "This is a work of visceral urgency and power: it heralds the arrival of a major talent. " |
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