Indian writers had been dominating the long list of authors competing for Asia's top English-language literary prize - the Man Booker. One such writer whose name has featured many a times on the Booker long list is Amitava Ghosh.But unfortunately, the prize eluded him every time.
Ghosh, one of India’s best-known writers is best known for The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, Incendiary Circumstances, The Hungry Tide. His most recent novel, Sea of Poppies, is the first volume of the Ibis Trilogy.
Ghosh originally from Calcutta, the quintessential East Indian city that has produced so many writers of repute in the past, has been to the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. In 1999, Ghosh joined the faculty at Queens College, City University of New York, as Distinguished Professor in Comparative Literature and since then had been living in New York with his wife, Deborah Baker, author of the Laura Riding biography In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding (1993) and works as a senior editor at Little, Brown and Company.
He has also been a visiting professor to the English department of Harvard University since 2005. Nonetheless, Ghosh's subject is India and he had been writing mostly on Indian immigrants. His books have a keen Indian sensibility as well. In Ibis Trilogy, of which two volumes have been published to date, Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke- are based on immigrant experiences of Indians at a time when the idea of India had not been formed.
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Ghosh originally from Calcutta, the quintessential East Indian city that has produced so many writers of repute in the past, has been to the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. In 1999, Ghosh joined the faculty at Queens College, City University of New York, as Distinguished Professor in Comparative Literature and since then had been living in New York with his wife, Deborah Baker, author of the Laura Riding biography In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding (1993) and works as a senior editor at Little, Brown and Company.
He has also been a visiting professor to the English department of Harvard University since 2005. Nonetheless, Ghosh's subject is India and he had been writing mostly on Indian immigrants. His books have a keen Indian sensibility as well. In Ibis Trilogy, of which two volumes have been published to date, Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke- are based on immigrant experiences of Indians at a time when the idea of India had not been formed.
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