Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta on 11 July 1956; the son of a diplomat, he lived as a child in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Iran. Educated at the Doon School and the University of Delhi, a journalist at the Indian Express, he defended a doctoral thesis in social anthropology at Oxford in 1982. He taught in Delhi, Cairo, at Columbia and at Queens College, and wrote the Ibis trilogy on the opium wars and essays on climate change. In 2018, he was the first English-language writer to receive the Jnanpith Prize.

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• NovelThe Circle of ReasonAmitav Ghosh · 1986Literature