Awards. He has written for many publications including The Hindu, The New Yorker and Granta, and taught in universities in both India and the US. But to limit fiction and politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great cost. Amitav Ghosh is one of the most widely known Indians writing in English today.

ISBN-13: 9780375758775 Summary Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest.

Renowned author Amitav Ghosh was conferred with the 54th Jnanpith Award for his contribution to the enrichment of Indian literature in English at a ceremony in New Delhi.

2005: Media type: Print : Pages: 400: ISBN: 0-00-714178-5: OCLC: 59204287 : The Hungry Tide (2004) is the sixth novel by Indian-born author, Amitav Ghosh. Padma Shri Award 2007. Synopsis. Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956.

Amitav Ghosh at the Padma Shri Award Ceremony. "Amitav Ghosh is a path-breaking novelist. Amitav Ghosh: Country: India: Language: English: Genre: Novel: Publisher: HarperCollins: Publication date. He studied at St. Stephen's College, ... C. Clarke Award for 1997 and "The Glass Palace" won the Grand Prize for Fiction at the Frankfurt International e-Book Awards in 2001.

There is a drought, but people are still happy to watch cricket: Amitav Ghosh. The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence—a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all cultural forms. It is a book that captures perspective of time and events, of lines that bring people together and hold them apart; lines that are clearly visible from one perspective and nonexistent from another; lines that exist in the memory of one, and therefore in another's imagination. The Shadow Lines (1988) is a Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh. Amitav Ghosh to pen three new books, 'Jungle-nama' will hit the stands this year. 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. He was awarded a doctorate from Oxford University.

Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956, and studied at Dehra Dun, New Delhi, Alexandria and Oxford.

Amitav Ghosh with daughter Lila. Amitav Ghosh, 2000 Random House 486 pp. It won the 2004 Hutch Crossword Book Award for Fiction. Honorary Doctorate, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Holland; Jnanpith Award, 2018; Lifetime Achievement Award, Times of India festival, Mumbai, 2018 (Source: File Photo) One of India’s leading contemporary English writers, Amitav Ghosh, has been honoured with 2018’s Jnanpith Award, a literary recognition given to an author for “outstanding contribution towards literature”.

In his novels, Ghosh treads through historical settings to the modern era and weaves a space where the past connects with the present in relevant ways.

Ghosh ends by suggesting that politics, much like literature, has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action. His most recent novel, Sea of Poppies, is … Amitav Ghosh is one of India's best-known writers.

Amitav Ghosh is the first Indian writer in English to have been chosen for the 54th Jnanpith Award.