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Amitav Ghosh

Born

in Calcutta, West Bengal, India

July 11, 1956

Website

http://www.amitavghosh.com

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Amitav Ghosh is an Indian writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia. He has written historical fiction and non-fiction works discussing topics such as colonialism and climate change.
Ghosh studied at The Doon School, Dehradun, and earned a doctorate in social anthropology at the University of Oxford. He worked at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi and several academic institutions. His first novel, The Circle of Reason, was published in 1986, which he followed with later fictional works, including The Shadow Lines and The Glass Palace. ...more

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Letter about ‘The Ghat of the Only World’. My essay on Ag...

Letter about ‘The Ghat of the Only World’. My essay on Agha Shahid Ali has been on the curriculum of India’s Central Board of Secondary Education for quite a while, which means that it is read every year by millions of schoolchildren. Every now and then I get beautiful letters from young people who have […]

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Average rating: 3.94 · 137,928 ratings · 14,036 reviews · 57 distinct works • Similar authors

	Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 29,785 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Glass Palace really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 28,040 ratings — published 2000 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hungry Tide 3.99 avg rating — 19,993 ratings — published 2004 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	River of Smoke 3.97 avg rating — 11,119 ratings — published 2011 — 90 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shadow Lines 3.86 avg rating — 8,984 ratings — published 1988 — 76 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flood of Fire 4.17 avg rating — 6,728 ratings — published 2015 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Calcutta Chromosome 3.49 avg rating — 7,105 ratings — published 1996 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable 4.04 avg rating — 5,797 ratings — published 2016 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh, Maneesha Taneja (Traslator) 3.62 avg rating — 6,423 ratings — published 2019 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis 4.20 avg rating — 3,686 ratings — published 2021 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Amitav Ghosh (?)

“How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide

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“What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace

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“To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace

tags: justification, past, present

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Polls

Please vote for the book you'd like to read in December 2009.

The Glass Palace A Novel by Amitav Ghosh

11 votes, 22.9%

Last Night in Twisted River A Novel by John Irving

11 votes, 22.9%

The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

9 votes, 18.8%

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

6 votes, 12.5%

The Magus by John Fowles

5 votes, 10.4%

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin

4 votes, 8.3%

Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan

1 vote, 2.1%

Ilium by Dan Simmons

1 vote, 2.1%

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