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{{Infobox writer 
| name = Amitav Ghosh
| image = Amitav Ghosh by Gage Skidmore.jpg
| caption = Ghosh in 2017
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1956|07|11}}<ref name=britannica/>
| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| occupation = Writer
| nationality = Indian<ref>{{cite news |url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/the-heroic-tale-of-great-entrepreneurs-is-nonsense-amitav-ghosh/articleshow/55611360.cms |title=The heroic tale of great entrepreneurs is nonsense: Amitav Ghosh |access-date=2017-04-25 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161128111422/http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/the-heroic-tale-of-great-entrepreneurs-is-nonsense-amitav-ghosh/articleshow/55611360.cms |archive-date=28 November 2016 |df=dmy-all |newspaper=The Economic Times |date=2016-11-25 |last1=Gupte |first1=Masoom }}</ref>
| alma_mater = [[University of Delhi]] ([[B.A.]], [[M.A.]]) [[University of Oxford]] ([[Ph.D.]])
| genre = Historical fiction
| notableworks = ''[[The Shadow Lines]]'', ''[[The Glass Palace]]'', ''[[Sea of Poppies]]'', ''[[River of Smoke]]'', ''[[The Hungry Tide]]''
| spouse = [[Deborah Baker]] (wife)
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| influences =
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| awards = [[Jnanpith Award]] [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] [[Ananda Puraskar]] [[Dan David Prize]] [[Padma Shri]]
| website = {{URL|www.amitavghosh.com}}
| honorific_suffix = [[Royal Society of Literature|FRSL]]
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'''Amitav Ghosh''' (born 11 July 1956)<ref name=britannica>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1537377/Amitav-Ghosh Ghosh, Amitav] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805051222/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1537377/Amitav-Ghosh |date=5 August 2011 }}, ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]''</ref> is an [[Indian people|Indian]] [[writer]] and the winner of the 54th [[Jnanpith award]], India’s highest literary honor, best known for his work in [[English language|English]] fiction. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of [[India]] and [[Southeast Asia]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Brittanica|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Amitav-Ghosh|url-status=live}}</ref>

Amitav Ghosh was born in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] in 1956. He studied in [[Dehradun]], [[New Delhi]], [[Alexandria]] and [[Oxford]] and his first job was at the [[The Indian Express|Indian Express]] newspaper in New Delhi. He earned a doctorate at in Oxford before he wrote his first novel, [[The Circle of Reason (novel)|''The Circle of Reason'']], which was published in 1986.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Amitav Ghosh|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3369.Amitav_Ghosh|access-date=2021-05-14|website=www.goodreads.com}}</ref>

Amitav Ghosh holds two Lifetime Achievement awards and four 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|Dan David prize]], and 2011 he was awarded the Grand Prix of the Blue Metropolis festival in [[Montreal]]. He was the first English-language writer to receive the award. In 2019 ''[[Foreign Policy]]'' [[Foreign Policy|magazine]] named him one of the most important global thinkers of the preceding decade.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Amitav Ghosh : Biography|url=https://www.amitavghosh.com/bio.html|access-date=2021-05-14|website=www.amitavghosh.com}}</ref>

==Life==
[[File:Amitav Ghosh by David Shankbone.jpg|right|thumb|Ghosh in 2007]]Amitav Ghosh was born in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] on 11 July 1956 and was educated at the all-boys boarding school [[The Doon School]] in [[Dehradun]]. He grew up in [[India]], [[Bangladesh]] and [[Sri Lanka]]. His contemporaries at Doon included author [[Vikram Seth]] and historian [[Ram Guha]].<ref>{{cite news |author=Nicholas Wroe |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/23/amitav-ghosh-vibrant-literary-world-india-naipaul-interview |title=Amitav Ghosh: 'There is now a vibrant literary world in India – it all began with Naipaul' |newspaper=The Guardian |date= 2015-05-23|access-date=2015-05-27 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526192303/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/23/amitav-ghosh-vibrant-literary-world-india-naipaul-interview |archive-date=26 May 2015 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> While at school, he regularly contributed [[fiction]] and [[poetry]] to ''[[The Doon School Weekly]]'' (then edited by Seth) and founded the magazine ''History Times'' along with Guha.<ref>{{cite web |author=The Pioneer |url=https://www.dailypioneer.com/2016/state-editions/dosco-amitav-ghosh-celebrates-his-60th-birthday.html |title='Dosco' Amitav Ghosh celebrates his 60th Birthday |publisher=Dailypioneer.com |access-date=2019-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190326113030/https://www.dailypioneer.com/2016/state-editions/dosco-amitav-ghosh-celebrates-his-60th-birthday.html |archive-date=26 March 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thestatesman.com/features/nature-cricket-literature-history-1502519395.html|title=Of nature, cricket, literature and history|date=29 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Ramachandra Guha |url=https://twitter.com/ram_guha/status/378098262772699137 |title=Ramachandra Guha on Twitter: "On the 25th anniversary of Amitav Ghosh's superb The Shadow Lines, a toast to History Times, the school magazine we worked on together." |publisher=Twitter.com |date=2013-09-12 |access-date=2019-03-26}}</ref> After Doon, he received degrees from [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi|St Stephen's College]], [[Delhi University]], and [[Delhi School of Economics]].

He then won the Inlaks Foundation scholarship to complete a [[D. Phil.]] in [[social anthropology]] at [[St Edmund Hall, Oxford]], under the supervision of British [[social anthropologist]] [[Peter Lienhardt]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/A-scholarship-worth-going-after/articleshow/390390825.cms|title=A scholarship worth going after|website=The Times of India|date=2002-01-17|access-date=2015-05-27|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108005314/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/A-scholarship-worth-going-after/articleshow/390390825.cms|archive-date=8 January 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The thesis, undertaken in the Faculty of Anthropology and Geography, was entitled "Kinship in relation to economic and social organization in an Egyptian village community" and submitted in 1982.<ref>Srivastava, Neelam, "Amitav Ghosh's enthographic fictions: Intertextual links between ''In An Antique Land'' and his doctoral thesis", ''Journal of Commonwealth Literature'', 2001, Vol.36(2), pp.45-64.</ref>

Ghosh's first job was at the ''[[Indian Express]]'' newspaper in New Delhi. In 1999, Ghosh joined the faculty at [[Queens College, City University of New York|Queens College]], [[City University of New York]], as Distinguished Professor in [[comparative literature]]. He has also been a [[Professor|visiting professor]] at the [[English studies|English]] department of [[Harvard University]] since 2005. He has been a [[fellow]] at the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]] and [[Centre for Development Studies]] in [[Thiruvananthapuram|Trivandrum]]. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Royal Society of Literature All Fellows|url=http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305070326/http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows|archive-date=5 March 2010|access-date=8 August 2010|publisher=Royal Society of Literature|df=dmy}}</ref> In 2015 Ghosh was named a Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Art of Change: Meet our visiting fellows|url=https://www.fordfoundation.org/the-latest/news/the-art-of-change-meet-our-visiting-fellows/|access-date=2019-10-29|website=Ford Foundation|language=en}}</ref>

He was awarded the [[Padma Shri]] by the [[Government of India|Indian government]] in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://india.gov.in/hindi/myindia/Padma%20Awards.pdf|access-date=17 October 2008|title=National Portal of India}}{{dead link|date=May 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

Ghosh returned to India to begin working on the [[Ibis trilogy]] which includes ''[[Sea of Poppies]] (2008)'', ''[[River of Smoke]] (2011)'', and ''[[Flood of Fire]]'' (''2015'').

Ghosh lives in New York with his wife, [[Deborah Baker]], author of the [[Laura Riding]] biography ''In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding'' (1993) and a senior editor at [[Little, Brown and Company]]. They have two children, Lila and Nayan.

==Work==

===Fiction===
Ghosh is the author of ''[[The Circle of Reason (novel)|The Circle of Reason]]'' (his 1986 [[debut novel]]), ''[[The Shadow Lines]]'' (1988), ''[[The Calcutta Chromosome]]'' (1995), ''[[The Glass Palace]]'' (2000), ''[[The Hungry Tide]]'' (2004), and ''[[Sea of Poppies]]'' (2008), the first volume of ''[[Ibis trilogy|The Ibis trilogy]]'', set in the 1830s, just before the [[First Opium War|Opium War]], which encapsulates the colonial history of the East. Ghosh's ''[[River of Smoke]]'' (2011), is the second volume of ''The Ibis'' trilogy. The third, ''[[Flood of Fire]]'', completing the trilogy, was published 28 May 2015 to positive reviews.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/05/flood-of-fire-amitav-ghosh-review-instalment-trilogy |title=Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh review – the final instalment of an extraordinary trilogy |access-date=2016-12-11 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202000321/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/05/flood-of-fire-amitav-ghosh-review-instalment-trilogy |archive-date=2 February 2017 |df=dmy-all |newspaper=The Guardian |date=2015-06-05 |last1=Clark |first1=Alex }}</ref> ''[[The Shadow Lines]]'' that won him the Sahitya Akademi Award "throws light on the phenomenon of communal violence and the way its roots have spread deeply and widely in the collective psyche of the Indian subcontinent".<ref>{{cite web|author=rajnishmishravns |url=https://rajnishmishravns.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/amitav-ghoshs-the-shadow-lines-as-an-indian-english-novel/ |title=Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines as an Indian English Novel | rajnishmishravns |publisher=Rajnishmishravns.wordpress.com |date=2013-01-26 |access-date=2019-03-26}}</ref> Most of his work deals with historical settings, especially in the Indian Ocean periphery. In an interview with [[Mahmood Kooria]], he said: "It was not intentional, but sometimes things are intentional without being intentional. Though it was never part of a planned venture and did not begin as a conscious project, I realise in hindsight that this is really what always interested me most: the [[Bay of Bengal]], the [[Arabian Sea]], the [[Indian Ocean]], and the connections and the cross-connections between these regions." <ref>[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8845430 Mahmood Kooria (2012). "Between the Walls of Archives and Horizons of Imagination: An Interview with Amitav Ghosh". ''Itinerario'', 36, p. 10] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810164139/http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8845430 |date=10 August 2014 }}</ref>

Ghosh's Gun Island, published in 2019 and dealing with [[climate change]] and [[human migration]], drew praise<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/with-gun-island-amitav-ghosh-turns-global-crises-into-engaging-fiction/2019/09/08/efe6b35e-d0ce-11e9-b29b-a528dc82154a_story.html|title=Review {{!}} With 'Gun Island,' Amitav Ghosh turns global crises into engaging fiction|last=Alam|first=Rumaan|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en|access-date=2019-12-22}}</ref> from critics. [[The Guardian]] however, noted Ghosh's tendency to go on tangents, calling it "a shaggy dog story" that "can take a very roundabout path towards reality, but it will get there in the end."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/05/gun-island-amitav-ghosh-review|title=Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh review – climate and culture in crisis|last=Clark|first=Alex|date=2019-06-05|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-12-22|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

===Non-fiction===

Ghosh's notable [[non-fiction]] writings are ''[[In an Antique Land]]'' (1992), ''[[Dancing in Cambodia and at Large in Burma]]'' (1998), ''Countdown'' (1999), and ''[[The Imam and the Indian]]'' (2002, a collection of essays on themes such as [[fundamentalism]], the history of the novel, [[Culture of Egypt|Egyptian culture]], and [[literature]]. His writings appear in newspapers and magazines in India and abroad. His most-recent non-fiction book ''[[The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable]]'' (2016) addresses why modern literature has failed to address issues of climate change, and how radical transformation due to nature has become 'unthinkable'.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}Amitav Ghosh ''says the “planetary crisis” is akin to the “bio-political wars of the past” and holds that “things are really not good” in the world today.[https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/amitav-ghosh-interview-planetary-crisis-is-a-kind-of-bio-political-war-akin-to-those-of-the-past/article37561647.ece]''

In 2021 ''The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis'' was published. Here Ghosh looks at the journey of the nutmeg from its native [[Banda Islands]] to many other parts of the world, taking this as a lens through which to understand the historical influence of colonialism upon attitudes towards Indigenous cultures and environmental change.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Amitav Ghosh's new book 'The Nutmeg's Curse' to release in October - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/features/amitav-ghoshs-new-book-the-nutmegs-curse-to-release-in-october/articleshow/83549789.cms|access-date=2021-06-23|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref>

===Awards and recognition===
''The Circle of Reason'' won the [[Prix Médicis étranger]], one of France's top literary awards.<ref name="hindu.com">{{cite news | url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/05/24/stories/2008052461680200.htm | location=Chennai, India | title=Amitav Ghosh re-emerges with Sea of Poppies | date=24 May 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007071405/http://www.hindu.com/2008/05/24/stories/2008052461680200.htm | archive-date=7 October 2008 | work=[[The Hindu]] | df=dmy-all }}</ref> ''The Shadow Lines'' won the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] and the [[Ananda Puraskar]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/amitav-ghosh/ |title=Amitav Ghosh |publisher=Fantasticfiction.co.uk |access-date=28 May 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531104437/http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/amitav-ghosh/ |archive-date=31 May 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> ''The Calcutta Chromosome'' won the [[Arthur C. Clarke Award]] for 1997.<ref name="clarkeaward.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.clarkeaward.com/index.php?view=article&catid=34%3APrevious+Winners&id=59%3A1997+Winner&option=com_content&Itemid=58 |title=Arthur C. Clarke Award | |publisher=Clarkeaward.com |access-date=28 May 2012 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ''Sea of Poppies'' was shortlisted for the 2008 [[Man Booker Prize]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7606147.stm | work=BBC News | title=First-timers Seeking Booker glory | date=9 September 2008 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091203155426/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7606147.stm | archive-date=3 December 2009 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> It was the co-winner of the [[Vodafone Crossword Book Award]] in 2009, as well as co-winner of the 2010 [[Dan David Prize]].<ref>[http://www.dandavidprize.org/index.php/laureates/laureates-2010/111-2010-present-literature-rendition-of-the-20th-century/274-amitav-ghosh.html Laureates 2010 – 2010 Present – Literature: Rendition of the 20th Century – Amitav Ghosh] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100418055231/http://www.dandavidprize.org/index.php/laureates/laureates-2010/111-2010-present-literature-rendition-of-the-20th-century/274-amitav-ghosh.html |date=18 April 2010 }}</ref> ''[[River of Smoke]]'' was shortlisted for the [[Man Asian Literary Prize]] 2011. The government of India awarded him the civilian honour of [[Padma Shri]] in 2007.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 |df=dmy }}</ref> He also received – together with [[Margaret Atwood]] – the Israeli [[Dan David Prize]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-48073020100428|title=Amitav Ghosh joint winner of $1 million Israeli prize|first=Reuters|last=Editorial|newspaper=Reuters|date=2010-04-28}}</ref>

Ghosh famously withdrew his novel ''[[The Glass Palace]]'' from consideration for the [[Commonwealth Writers' Prize]], where it was awarded the best novel in the Eurasian section, citing his objections to the term "commonwealth" and the unfairness of the English language requirement specified in the rules.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/mar/24/theloafer.awardsandprizes Wild West at the London Book Fair| ''The Guardian''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305185037/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/mar/24/theloafer.awardsandprizes |date=5 March 2016 }}</ref>

Ghosh received the lifetime achievement award at Tata Literature Live, the Mumbai LitFest on 20 November 2016.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/amitav-ghosh-gets-life-time-achievement-award-at-lit-fest/1/815588.html|title=Amitav Ghosh gets life-time achievement award at Lit Fest|access-date=2016-12-19|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220174226/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/amitav-ghosh-gets-life-time-achievement-award-at-lit-fest/1/815588.html|archive-date=20 December 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
He was conferred the 54th [[Jnanpith award]] in December 2018 and is the first Indian writer in English to have been chosen for this honour.<ref>{{cite web |title=Author Amitav Ghosh honoured with 54h Jnanpith award |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/author-amitav-ghosh-honoured-with-54h-jnanpith-award/articleshow/67093276.cms |access-date=14 December 2018}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
{{col-begin}}
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'''Novels'''
*''[[The Circle of Reason (novel)|The Circle of Reason]]'' (1986)
*''[[The Shadow Lines]]'' (1988)
*''[[The Calcutta Chromosome]]'' (1995)
*''[[The Glass Palace]]'' (2000)
*''[[The Hungry Tide]]'' (2004)
*''[[Sea of Poppies]]'' (2008)
*''[[River of Smoke]]'' (2011)
*''[[Flood of Fire]]'' (2015)
*''Gun Island'' (2019)
*''[[Jungle Nama]]'' (2021)
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'''Non-Fiction'''
*''[[In an Antique Land]]'' (1992)
*''[[Dancing in Cambodia and at Large in Burma]]'' (1998; Essays)
*''Countdown'' (1999)
*''[[The Imam and the Indian]]'' (2002; Essays)
*''Incendiary Circumstances'' (2006; Essays)
*''[[The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable]]'' (2016)
* ''The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis'' (2021)
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==References==
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==External links==
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*[https://www.academia.edu/1029766/Philosophy_and_Politics_of_science_mutation_in_Amitav_Ghoshs_The_Calcutta_Chromosome/ Philosophy & Politics of science mutation in Amitav Ghoshs The Calcutta Chromosome]
*{{Official website|http://www.amitavghosh.com/}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111006034908/http://www.guernicamag.com/fiction/3110/river_of_smoke_ghosh_10_1_11/ Excerpt from ''River of Smoke''] in [[Guernica Magazine]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081014033308/http://us.macmillan.com/seaofpoppies ''Sea of Poppies'' at Farrar, Straus and Giroux site]
*[http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Ghosh.html Amitav Ghosh in Emory University Site]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090427153845/http://indipepal.com/portal/blogger/amitav_ghosh Amitav Ghosh's Blog on Indipepal]

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