Amitav
Ghosh an author, anthropologist and essayist was
born in Calcutta in 1956. He studied at St.
Stephen's College, Delhi, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
and at Faculty of Arts, University of Alexandria.
He worked for Indian Express news paper in New
Delhi and did his doctorate at Oxford. 
Amitav
spent his childhood in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and
northern India. He is one of the best known Indian
writers in English, he has won many awards to his
credit. Amitav was honored with the the Sahitya
Akademi (India's National Academy Award) and Anand
Puraskar (Calcutta) for his novel "The Shadow
Lines".
In
1999, Ghosh joined the faculty at Queens College
in the City University of New York, teaching
writing classes and courses on film and
literature. He lives in New York City with his
wife and two children. His novel "The
Calcutta Chromosome" won the Arthur C. Clarke
prize, Britain's top science fiction prize for
1997.
His
books include "The Circle of Reason,"
"The Shadow Lines," "In An Antique
Land," "Dancing in Cambodia,"
"The Calcutta Chromosome," and most
recently, "The Glass Palace", which won
the Grand Prize for Fiction at the Frankfurt
International e-Book Awards in 2001.
Amitav
went to Egypt to do field work in the Fellaheen
village of Lataifa. He picked up Arabic and the
work he did there resulted in 'In an Antique
Land', published in 1993. His books include the
following.
| 1 |
The
Circle of Reason (a novel), 1986,
Roli Books (New Delhi); Hamish
Hamilton (London); and (1987) Viking
Penguin (New York). Subsequently
translated and published in Swedish,
Italian, Dutch, German, Danish,
Finnish, Spanish and French. Awarded
the Prix Medicis Etrangère,
(Paris), 1990. New
York Times Notable Book of
the Year, 1987. |
| 2 |
The
Shadow Lines (a novel), 1988, Ravi
Dayal (New Delhi), Bloomsbury Press
(London) and (1989) Viking Penguin
(New York). Subsequently translated
and published in Italian, German, and
French. Dutch, Finnish, Swedish and
Danish translations forthcoming.
Textbook edition for Indian schools
and colleges published by Oxford
University Press, New Delhi, 1995. Awarded
the annual prize of the Sahitya
Akademi (Indian Academy of
Literature), 1990 and the Ananda
Puraskar (Calcutta), 1990. |
| 3 |
In
An Antique Land (non-fiction),
1992, Ravi Dayal (New Delhi), Granta
Publications (London) and (1993)
A.J.Knopf (New York). Italian and
French translations published 1993,
German in 1994, and translations
forthcoming in Spanish, Hebrew &
Urdu. Subject of 40 minute TV
documentary by BBC III, 1992. New
York Times Notable Book of
the Year, 1993. |
| 4 |
The
Calcutta Chromosome (a novel),
1996, Ravi Dayal (New Delhi), Einaudi
(Turin), Picador (London), Bertelsmann
(Frankfurt), William Morrow (New
York); forthcoming Le Seuil, (Paris),
Anagrama (Barcelona), Bzztoh
(Amsterdam) & Editora Atica SA
(Sao Paolo). Under film contract with
Gabriele Salvatores, Oscar-winning
director of Mediterraneo. |
| 5 |
Dancing
in Cambodia & At Large in Burma,
(Collection of Essays) Ravi Dayal (New
Delhi), and Einaudi (Turin), 1998. |
| 6 |
Countdown,
Ravi Dayal, New Delhi, 1999. |
| 7 |
The
Glass Palace (forthcoming, 2000),
Ravi Dayal (New Delhi), Harper Collins
(London); Random House (New York);
Einaudi (Turin), Karl Blessing
(Frankfurt), Le Seuil, (Paris). |
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