Amitav Ghosh
Autor(a) de Sea of Poppies
About the Author
Born in Calcutta, and spent his childhood in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Northern India. He studied in Delhi, Oxford, and Egypt and taught at various Indian and American universities. Author of a travel book and three acclaimed novels. Ghosh has also written for GRANTA, THE NEW YORKER, THE NEW YORK mostrar mais TIMES, and THE OBSERVER. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children. (Publisher Provided) Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta, India on July 11, 1956. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria. His first book, The Circle of Reason, won France's Prix Médicis. He has won several other awards including the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Ananda Puraskar for The Shadow Lines, the Arthur C. Clarke award for The Calcutta Chromosome, and the Crossword Book Prize for The Hungry Tide and Sea of Poppies. His other works include In an Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Glass Palace, and River of Smoke. In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Shri, one of India's highest honors, by the President of India. He made the New Zealand Best Seller List in 2015 with his title Flood of Fire. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Amitav Ghosh
The Town by the Sea 4 exemplares
An Egyptian in Baghdad [short fiction] 2 exemplares
2000 1 exemplar
La montagna vivente (Italian Edition) 1 exemplar
වීදුරු මාළිගාව 1 exemplar
2008 1 exemplar
Confessions of a Xenophile & Wild Fictions 1 exemplar
2004 1 exemplar
India's Untold War of Independence 1 exemplar
ভ্রমি বিস্ময়ে 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Will the Flower Slip Through the Asphalt? Writers Respond to Capitalist Climate Change (2017) — Posfácio, algumas edições — 15 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Ghosh, Amitav
- Data de nascimento
- 1956-07-11
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- India
- Local de nascimento
- Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Locais de residência
- Calcutta, India
New York, New York, USA
Bangladesh - Educação
- The Doon School
St. Stephen's College, Delhi
Delhi University (BA|1976|MA|1978)
St Edmund Hall, Oxford University (D.Phil |1982|Social Anthropology)
University of Alexandria - Ocupações
- novelist
- Relações
- Baker, Deborah (wife)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2009)
Padma Shri (2007)
Dan David Prize (2010)
Jnanpith Award (2018)
Sahitya Akademi Award (1989)
Prix Médicis étranger (1990) (mostrar todos 15)
Ananda Puraskar (1989)
Arthur C. Clarke Award (1997)
Vodafone Crossword Book Award (2009)
Pushcart Prize (1999)
Blue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prix (2011)
Man Asia Literary Prize (2011)
Grinzane Cavour International Prize (2007)
Hutch Crossword Book Award (2004)
International e-book Award Grand Prize for Fiction (2001)
Membros
Discussions
River of Smoke Group Read (June 15th) em 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (Julho 2012)
Sea of Poppies Group Read: Week Two em 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (Janeiro 2012)
Sea of Poppies Group Read: Week One em 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (Janeiro 2012)
Críticas
Listas
All Things India (3)
A Novel Cure (1)
Best Sea Stories (1)
Asia (3)
World Books (1)
My TBR (1)
Climate Change (1)
Booker Prize (1)
Climate Change (1)
Indian Diaspora (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 38
- Also by
- 13
- Membros
- 13,661
- Popularidade
- #1,698
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 429
- ISBN
- 443
- Línguas
- 22
- Marcado como favorito
- 47