Friday November10 , 2006 │ 7:30 pm
Rutgers Student Center
Graduate Student Lounge
126 College Avenue, New Brunswick

Parking: Lots 30 & 26 (Sicard Street) See Map
Admission: Free and open to the Rutgers community and the general public

The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing.

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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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For more information visit the Writers at Rutgers section of this site or call 732/932-7633.