Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He is the author of one book of non-fiction, a collection of essays and eight novels, of which the most recent is Flood of Fire. His books have won prizes in India, Europe and Myanmar and he has been awarded honorary degrees by the Sorbonne, Paris, and by Queens College, New York. He divides his time between Brooklyn, Goa and Kolkata.
Nonfiction
Summer 2003
The Greatest Sorrow: Times of Joy Recalled in Wretchedness
… Nessun maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice ne la miseria … … There is no greater sorrow than to recall our times of joy in wretchedness …—Dante, The […]
Cultures of Creativity: The Centennial Celebration of the Nobel Prizes
Spring 2001
54 University Avenue, Yangon
Aung San Suu Kyi’s childhood home is a dilapidated, once-handsome bungalow that looks out on Rangoon’s Inya Lake—a picturesque tretch of water whose surface is dotted with water lilies and […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1998
The March of the Novel through History: The Testimony of My Grandfather’s Bookcase
As a child I spent my holidays in my grandfather’s house in Calcutta, and it was there that I began to read. My grandfather’s house was a chaotic and noisy […]