Amitav Ghosh Book Talk
When:
Tuesday, Mar 08, 2022 4:00p -
5:30p
Tuesday, Mar 08, 2022 4:00p -
5:30p
Where:
Online event
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences, Social Good, University, Virtual & Streaming
Event website:
https://bit.ly/ghoshtufts
Award-winning writer, Amitav Ghosh, discusses his latest book, The Nutmeg’s Curse, about climate change and Western colonialism. This talk will be followed by a Q&A.
This talk is sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at Tufts.
About the author:
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria and is the author of The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, and The Ibis Trilogy, consisting of Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke and Flood of Fire. The Great Derangement; Climate Change and the Unthinkable, a work of non-fiction, appeared in 2016. His latest book, The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, was released in October, 2021.
The Circle of Reason was awarded France’s Prix Médicis in 1990, and The Shadow Lines won two prestigious Indian prizes the same year, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Ananda Puraskar. In January 2005 The Hungry Tide was awarded the Crossword Book Prize, a major Indian award. His novel, Sea of Poppies (2008) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2008 and was awarded the Crossword Book Prize and the India Plaza Golden Quill Award.
Amitav Ghosh’s work has been translated into more than thirty languages. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic and The New York Times.
Amitav Ghosh holds two Lifetime Achievement awards and four honorary doctorates. In 2007 he was awarded the Padma Shri, one of India’s highest honors, by the President of India. In 2010 he was a joint winner, along with Margaret Atwood, of a Dan David prize, and 2011 he was awarded the Grand Prix of the Blue Metropolis festival in Montreal. 2018 the Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary honor, was conferred on Amitav Ghosh. He was the first English-language writer to receive the award. In 2019 Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the most important global thinkers of the preceding decade.
