Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh is an acclaimed Indian writer who won the Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour.
His novels employ complex narratives exploring national and personal identity, particularly in South Asia.
After earning a doctorate in social anthropology from Oxford, he published novels including The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, and The Glass Palace.
His Ibis trilogy (2004-2015) addresses the First Opium War.
His non-fiction includes In an Antique Land and The Great Derangement on climate change.
He holds multiple Lifetime Achievement awards, four honorary doctorates, and received the Padma Shri.
Foreign Policy named him among the most important global thinkers of the 2010s.
