Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford, and Alexandria. He is the author of several acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction, including The Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, the Ibis Trilogy—comprising Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire—The Great Derangement, Gun Island, The Nutmeg’s Curse, Jungle Nama, The Living Mountain, Smoke and Ashes, Wild Fictions (a collection of essays), and his latest novel, Ghost-Eye. His works have been translated into more than 30 languages, and he has been widely awarded and felicitated across the world. In 2019, Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the most important global thinkers of the past decade; the same year, India’s highest literary honour, the Jnanpith Award, was conferred on him. In 2024, he received the prestigious Erasmus Prize for his writings on the planetary crisis and climate change. He was awarded the Pak Kyongni Prize, Korea’s most esteemed international literary honour, in 2025.