--- title: "who wrote the Flood of fire and When?" description: "who wrote the Flood of fire and When?" author: "Jyoti Ajgaonkar" published: 2018-08-27 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/48557/who-wrote-the-flood-of-fire-and-when category: "books & novels" tags: ["books and literature"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # who wrote the Flood of fire and When? who wrote the Flood of [fire](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/300961/what-are-the-4-elements-of-mental-health) and When?\ \ \ ## Answers ### Answer by Harshal Vispute **Amitav Ghosh's novel Flood of Fire was published in 2015.** The novel is the **third and final volume of the Ibis trilogy,** which follows **Sea of Poppies (2008)** and **River of Smoke (2011)** and is about the **19th-century** opium traffic between **[India](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/93637/india-has-jointly-set-up-a-friendship-park-with-which-nation)** and **[China](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/93162/what-is-the-role-of-china-in-rcep)**. The book was first published in **England** by **John Murray**, and then in the **[United States](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/92993/why-the-united-states-is-the-only-superpower)** by **Farrar, Straus, and Giroux**. In **2015**, the work was nominated for **The Hindu Literary Prize** and won the **Crossword Book Jury Award in Fiction.** **Ghosh** began work on the **trilogy in 2004** but stated that it was conceived after he finished his novel **The Glass Palace in 2000**. To acquire study material, he travelled to **China, Hong Kong, and Singapore**. Amitav had published **seven books** by the time **Flood of Fire** came out, including the first two volumes of this trilogy and **five non-fiction works.** **Flood of Fire** is the third and final book of Ghosh's Ibis trilogy, and it takes place between **1839** and **1841**. Ghosh debunked all rumours by confirming that it is the final instalment of the Ibis trilogy at one of the book launch events. Ghosh revealed in an interview that he used to feel 'devastated' after finishing a book. As a result, he planned to write a trilogy so that he 'could spend a long time with the characters.' The novel won the **Crossword Book Jury Award** in the **fiction category in 2015**, whereas **Amish Tripathi's Scion of Ikshvaku got the public choice award in the fiction category**. It was also shortlisted for **The Hindu Literary Prize**, which went to **Easterine Kire** for her work When the River Sleeps, which tells the narrative of a hunter on a one-man journey to find a strong stone in a faraway river that will grant him omnipotence. --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/48557/who-wrote-the-flood-of-fire-and-when Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.