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Amitav Ghosh
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Amitav Ghosh
One of the most influent Indian literature personalities of our days, Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956 and grew up between Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka, Iran and India. After attending at Oxford University, where he graduated in Social Studies, he lived in North-Africa for a long time, in order to learn Arabic. From this experience he took inspiration for his first novel, The Circle of Reason (1985). The overlapping of different ages, places and cultures typify his following books: The Shadow Lines (1989), In an Antique Land (1992), The Calcutta Chromosome (1995), and the travel log Dancing in Cambodia (1998). The Glass Palace (2000) won the international fiction prize at Frankfurt Buchmesse. In The Hungry Tide (2005) and Incendiary Circumstances, time and space mix up again. Sea of Poppies (2008) is the first novel of the “Ibis Trilogy”, that tells of the birth of modern India, followed by River of Smoke (2011) and Flood of Fire (2015). In 2016, Ghosh went back to nonfiction with The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. He lives between Calcutta and New York, where we works as an anthropologist and a journalist. His books have been translated in more than 30 languages. In 2018 he has been the first English language writer to be honored with the Jnanpith Award, the most prestigious Indian literary recognition. His latest novel, Gun Island, will be published in June 2019.
CAPRI 2019
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