![]() ![]() Amitav Ghosh has written for many publications, including the Hindu, The New Yorker and Granta, and he has served on the juries of several international film festivals, including Locarno and Venice. In 2007 Amitav Ghosh was awarded the Grinzane Cavour Prize in Turin, Italy. The Hungry Tide won the Hutch Crossword Book Prize in 2006. Clarke Award for 1997 and The Glass Palace won the Grand Prize for Fiction at the Frankfurt International e-Book Awards in 2001. The Calcutta Chromosome won the Arthur C. ![]() ![]() The Circle of Reason won the Prix Medicis Etranger, one of France's top literary awards, and The Shadow Lines won the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Ananda Puraskar. He earned a doctorate at Oxford before he wrote his first novel, which was published in 1986. He studied in Dehra Dun, New Delhi, Alexandria and Oxford and his first job was at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi. ![]() His most recent novel, Sea of Poppies, is the first volume of the Ibis Trilogy.Īmitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. 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. Amitav Ghosh is one of India's best-known writers. ![]()
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