Amitav Ghosh is a novelist, essayist, and anthropologist celebrated worldwide for his writing. His novel The Shadow Lines won the Sahitya Akademi Award, India’s most prestigious literary prize; another novel, The Circle of Reason, received the Prix Medici Étranger, one of France’s top literary awards. Educated in Delhi, Oxford, and Alexandria, Ghosh has taught comparative literature at Queens College in the City University of New York and at Columbia University.
Born in Calcutta, India, Ghosh lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.
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