Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (2026).
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Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh is an American writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia. He has written historical fiction and non-fiction works discussing topics such as colonialism and climate change.
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culture · Indian writer (born 1956) · writer · novelist · journalist · literary critic · university teacher · also Amitav Ghosh, Ghosh
Born 11 July 1956 · Q336125
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
The Guardian: Next manuscript by Amitav Ghosh to be kept sealed for 89 years
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Ghosh received the fourteenth Park Kyong-ni Prize in recognition of his contribution to postcolonial and ecological writing, and for highlighting the voices of marginalised communities and the natural world
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2024· 1 entry
Awarded Erasmus Prize (2024).
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2023· 10 entries
“Still thinking about @amitav.bsky.social plenary at #AGU23 today, challenging the elite scientific view of the climate crisis and how actual humans in the actual world are responding”
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“What a lovely first day of #AGU23 with some really neat science (Rifts! Meteorite impacts! Tsunamis! Supercontinents!) and a fantastic plenary talk by @amitav.bsky.social. Can’t wait to read Smoke and Ashes.”
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“It was an incredible talk! Thanks @amitav.bsky.social for coming to deliver it!”
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“Thrilled beyond measure that @amitav.bsky.social is here at #AGU23 to provoke #AGU members to consider the reductive qualities of many assumptions and biases about the #climatecrisis”
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“At such points, I always go back to @amitav.bsky.social ‘s brilliant analysis contrasting the Paris Agreement with the Pope’s Laudato Si’ in The Great Derangement, p150-159. The former using torturous language and magical thinking and never addressing root cause, the latter, quite the opposite 2/”
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“Thanks to the efforts of Mayor Ravi Bhalla, "Hoboken hasn’t reported a single traffic death since January 2017, and injuries have dropped 41%."”
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“Für DIE ZEIT habe ich über ein bemerkenswertes Sachbuch geschrieben: "Der Fluch der Muskatnuss" von @amitav.bsky.social erzählt die Kolonialgeschichte einer Pflanze. Und verbindet sie mit #Klimakrise, #Naturverlust, globaler #Ungerechtigkeit. Bei @zeitonline.bsky.social: www.zeit.de/2023/43/der-...”
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“The two most important books I’ve ever read are The Nutmeg’s Curse by @amitav.bsky.social, which documents the colonial depredations that have led to our ecocidal modern techno-industrial dystopia... (1/2)”
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“If anyone is in Utrecht this weekend, I’ll be at ILFU. The excellent Saturday programme includes Ali Smith, Salman Rushdie, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Jeanette Winterson, @kshams.bsky.social @clairedederer.bsky.social & @amitav.bsky.social. Trudy Dehue and I are reading at 2pm ilfu.com/agenda/trudy-d”
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“Literally the first thing I read after posting the chart above......gimme a chance to get emissions data, @amitav.bsky.social!”
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: Amitav Ghosh: European colonialism helped create a planet in crisis
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2021· 1 entry
Ghosh published his first book in verse, Jungle Nama, which explores the Sundarbans legend of Bon Bibi
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2019· 3 entries
The Guardian: Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh review – climate and culture in crisis
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Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the most important global thinkers of the preceding decade
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Deals with climate change and human migration, drew praise from critics
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2016· 4 entries
The Guardian: Climate change with Amitav Ghosh and Aaron Thier – books podcast
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The Guardian: Easternisation by Gideon Rachman and The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh – review
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The Guardian: Amitav Ghosh: where is the fiction about climate change?
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The Guardian: Amitav Ghosh: 'climate change is like death, no one wants to talk about it'
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2015· 5 entries
The Guardian: Serial winners with Amitav Ghosh and Nicci French – books podcast
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The Guardian: Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh review – the final instalment of an extraordinary trilogy
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The Guardian: Amitav Ghosh: ‘There is now a vibrant literary world in India – it all began with Naipaul’
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The Guardian: Extract: Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh – podcast
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Was named a Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow
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2010· 3 entries
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the Paris-Sorbonne University (2010).
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Awarded Dan David Prize (2010).
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Was a joint winner, along with Margaret Atwood, of a Dan David prize, and in 2011, he was awarded the Grand Prix of the Blue Metropolis festival in Montreal
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2009· 3 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2009).
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As well as co-winner of the 2010 Dan David Prize
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Was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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2007· 3 entries
Awarded Asian American Literary Awards (2007).
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Was awarded the Padma Shri, one of India's highest honours, by the President of India
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Ghosh was awarded the Padma Shri by the Indian government
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Arthur C. Clarke Award for The Calcutta Chromosome (1997).
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Médicis étranger for The Circle of Reason (1990).
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1989· 2 entries
Awarded Ananda Puraskar (1989).
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Awarded Sahitya Akademi Award in English for The Shadow Lines (1989).
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1986· 1 entry
Which he followed with later fictional works, including The Shadow Lines and The Glass Palace
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1956· 1 entry
Born 1956-07-11.
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