Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh (born 1956), is an Indian-Bengali author and literary critic known for his work in the English language. This page is about an Indian banker. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (3264 × 2448 pixel, file size: 8. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (3264 × 2448 pixel, file size: 8. ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Bengali people are the ethnic community from Bengal (divided between India and Bangladesh) on the Indian subcontinent with a history dating back four millennia. ... Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

Ghosh was born in Calcutta. He was educated at The Doon School (where he was a younger contemporary of Vikram Seth); St. Stephen's College, Delhi; Delhi University; and the University of Oxford, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in social anthropology. Apparently Ghosh once showed Seth some of his poetry, prompting Seth to advise him to stick to prose. This article is on Calcutta/Kolkata, the city. ... The Doon School is one of the most prestigious public school and boarding school located in Dehra Dun, India. ... Vikram Seth (pronounced ), born June 20, 1952 is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, childrens writer, biographer and memoirist. ... For other St. ... University of Delhi,New Delhi The University of Delhi is a university in India. ... The University of Oxford (usually abbreviated as Oxon. ... Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph. ... Cultural anthropology, also called social anthropology or socio-cultural anthropology, is one of four commonly recognized fields of anthropology, the holistic study of humanity. ...

Ghosh lives in New York with his wife, Deborah Baker, author of the Laura Riding biography In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding (1993) and a senior editor at Little, Brown and Company, and his children Lila and Nayan. In 1999, Ghosh joined the faculty at Queens College, City University of New York as Distinguished Professor in Comparative Literature. He has also been a visiting professor to the English department of Harvard University since 2005. This article is about the state. ... Laura (Riding) Jackson (January 16, 1901 - September 2, 1991) was a United States poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer. ... Little, Brown and Company is a publishing house established by Charles Coffin Little and his partner, James Brown. ... Queens College is one of the senior colleges of the City University of New York. ... Comparative literature (sometimes abbreviated Comp. ... The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S., Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, India, South Africa, and the Middle East, among other areas), English linguistics (including English phonetics, phonology... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ...

Ghosh's latest work of fiction, The Hungry Tide was published in April 2004. His other novels are The Shadow Lines (1990), The Circle of Reason (1986), The Calcutta Chromosome (1995), and The Glass Palace (2000). The Shadow Lines won the Sahitya Akademi Award, India's most prestigious literary award. The Calcutta Chromosome won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for 1997. Ghosh's fiction is characterised by strong themes that may be somewhat identified with postcolonialism but is difficult to label. His topics are unique and personal; some of his appeal lies in his ability to weave "Indo-nostalgic" elements into more serious themes. The Hungry Tide is a very contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions on the earth. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: The Shadow Lines The Shadow Lines is a novel by Amitav Ghosh, published in 1988. ... Book cover The Calcutta Chromosome is a 1995 English Language novel by Indian author Amitav Ghosh. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A literary award is an award presented to an author who has written a particularly lauded piece or body of work. ... The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Indian English Literature (IEL) refers to the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India. ...

Ghosh also has written four works of non-fiction: Countdown (on India's nuclear policy), The Imam and the Indian (2002, a large collection of essays on different themes such as fundamentalism, history of the novel, Egyptian culture, and literature), In an Antique Land (1992) and Dancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma (1998). He was awarded Padma Shri by the Indian government in 2007. Ghosh recently purchased a property in Goa and is returning to India. He is working on a trilogy to be published by Penguin Books India. India is believed to possess an arsenal of nuclear weapons and maintains intermediate-range ballistic missiles to deliver them. ... Look up fundamentalism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the literary concept. ... The Culture of Egypt has five thousand years of recorded history. ... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... Padma Shri (also spelt Padma Shree, Padmashree, Padma Sree and Padma Sri) is an award given by the Government of India generally to Indian citizens to recognize their distinguished contribution in various spheres of activity including the Arts, Education, Industry, Literature, Science, Sports, Social Service and public life. ... The Government of India (Hindi: भारत सरकार [1]Bhārat Sarkār), officially referred to as the Union Government, and commonly as Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of a federal union of 28 states and 7 union territories, collectively called the Republic of... For other uses, see Goa (disambiguation). ... A trilogy is a set of three works of art, usually literature or film, that are connected and can be seen as a single work, as well as three individual ones. ... It has been suggested that Penguin Modern Poets, Penguin Great Ideas be merged into this article or section. ...

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