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Amitav Ghosh
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Amitav Ghosh

Author · born July 11, 1956

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Amitav Ghosh is an American writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia.

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  1. ~41Received the Arthur C. Clarke Award1997
  2. ~68Received the Erasmus Prize2024
  3. ~70Named Guggenheim Fellowship2026

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