Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh is an Indian author,
well known for books such as The Shadow Lines, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Hungry Tide,
The Circle of Reason, etc. He has done field work in Egypt on the fellaheen
village of Lataifa, which resulted in the book In an Antique Land
(1993).
The Shadow Lines won the Sahitya Akademi Award, India's most prestigious literary prize. Ghosh is currently Distinguished Professor in Comparative Literature at the Queens College in the City University of New York.
well known for books such as The Shadow Lines, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Hungry Tide,
The Circle of Reason, etc. He has done field work in Egypt on the fellaheen
village of Lataifa, which resulted in the book In an Antique Land
(1993).
The Shadow Lines won the Sahitya Akademi Award, India's most prestigious literary prize. Ghosh is currently Distinguished Professor in Comparative Literature at the Queens College in the City University of New York.