Bibliography | On Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh is one of the most widely known Indians writing in English today. His books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, and most recently, The Glass Palace.

Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He studied at St. Stephens College, Delhi; St. Edmund Hall, Oxford; and the Faculty of Arts, University of Alexandria. He worked for the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi and he earned his doctorate in Oxford before he wrote his first novel.

The Circle of Reason won the Prix Medici Etranger, one of France's top literary awards, and The Shadow Lines won the Sahitya Akademi Award , India's most prestigious literary prize.

The Calcutta Chromosome won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for 1997 and The Glass Palace won the Grand Prize for Fiction at the Frankfurt International e-Book Awards in 2001.

Amitav Ghosh was the winner of the 1999 Pushcart Prize, a leading literary award, for an essay that was published in the Kenyon Review.

He lives with his wife, Deborah Baker and their children, in Brooklyn, USA.