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The Glass Palace

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Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh
Born 11 July 1956 (1956-07-11) (age 55)[1]
Calcutta, India
Occupation Writer
Nationality Indian
Alma mater University of Delhi
St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Genres Historical fiction
Notable work(s) The Glass Palace, Sea of Poppies

Amitav Ghosh (অমিতাভ ঘোষ born July 11, 1956[1]), is a Bengali Indian author best known for his work in the English language.

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Life

Ghosh was born in Calcutta on July 11, 1956, to Lieutenant Colonel Shailendra Chandra Ghosh, a retired officer of the pre-independence Indian Army, and was educated at The Doon School; St. Stephen's College, Delhi; Delhi University; India; and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he was awarded a D. Phil. in social anthropology. His first job was at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi.[2]

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. He has been a Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. In 1999, Ghosh joined the faculty at Queens College, City University of New York, as Distinguished Professor in Comparative Literature. He has also been a visiting professor to the English department of Harvard University since 2005. Ghosh has recently purchased a property in Goa and is intending to return to India. He is working on a trilogy to be published by Penguin Books India.

He was awarded the Padma Shri by the Indian government in 2007.[3] In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature [4]

Work

Ghosh is the author of 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 The Ibis trilogy, set in the 1830s, just before the Opium War, which encapsulates the colonial history of the East. Ghosh's latest work of fiction is River of Smoke (2011), the second volume of The Ibis trilogy.

The Circle of Reason won the Prix Médicis étranger, one of France's top literary awards.[5] The Shadow Lines won the Sahitya Akademi Award & the Ananda Puraskar[6][7] The Calcutta Chromosome won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for 1997.[8] Sea of Poppies was shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize.[9] It was the co-winner of the Vodafone Crossword Book Award in 2009, as well as co-winner of the 2010 Dan David Prize.[10]

Ghosh's most 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 large collection of essays on different themes such as fundamentalism, history of the novel, Egyptian culture, and literature).

Bibliography

Novels

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)

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