Among the Indian writers in English, Amitav Ghosh is a favorite name to the book lovers. He was born in 1956 in Kolkata. Ghosh had spent his childhood in various places. He was brought up in Bangladesh. Later he also moved to Iran and Sri Lanka. He is the writer of a number of novels, non fictional stories and various articles.
Amitav Ghosh won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1997 for his novel, The Calcutta Chromosome. Prix Medici Estranger was won by him for his novel, The Circle of Reason. He won the Sahitya Academi Award for his Shadow Lines. Ghosh has also won the Pushcart Award in 1999.
Amitav Ghosh finished his graduation from St. Stephen's College in Delhi. Then he studied Social Anthropology in St. Edmund Hall in Oxford and at University of Alexandria. He secured his doctorate from Oxford in 1982. Ghosh in the initial years of his career started working in New Delhi in the newspaper house, Indian Express. Later as a professor of Comparative Literature Department he joined Queens College in New York in 1999. Amitav Ghosh has married Deborah
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Baker and lives in USA with his family. Some of the novels by Amitav Ghosh are:
- Sea of Poppies (2008)
- The Shadow Lines (1988)
- The Circle of Reason (1986)
- The Hungry Tide (2004)
- The Glass Palace (2000)
- The Calcutta Chromosome (1996)
Besides writing his novels, Amitav Ghosh also tried his hands at writing non fictions. He wrote Dancing in Cambodia and At Large in Burma in 1998, In an Antique Land in 1992. The Imam and the Indian was written in 2002. Ghosh wrote Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times in the year 2006.
The articles written by Amitav Ghosh includes 'The Ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi', 'The Fundamental Challenge', 'The Human Comedy in Cairo', 'Petrofiction' and 'Holiday in Cambodia'. He wrote essays like 'Satyajit Ray', 'Folly in the Sunderbans', 'The Man Behind the Mosque', 'The Tsunami of December 2004' and 'The Anglophone Empire'.
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