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title: "Who is Amitav Ghosh?"  
description: "Who is Amitav Ghosh?"  
author: "Saddiya  Anwar"  
published: 2020-02-26  
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# Who is Amitav Ghosh?

Who is Amitav Ghosh?

## Answers

### Answer by Saddiya  Anwar

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Amitav Ghosh won the 54th Jnanpith Award. Ghosh is the first writer in English to have won this honour.

"Amitav Ghosh is a path-breaking novelist. In his novels, [Ghosh](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/92767/who-is-greta-thunberg) trends through historical settings to the modern era and weaves a space where the past connects with the present in relevant ways.

According to a statement from Bhartiya Jnanpith read, his fiction is endowed with extraordinary depth and substance through his academic training as a historian and a social anthropologist.\

Ghosh is known for a series of novels such as The Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, and Ibis Trilogy - Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire- charting the Opium trade between India and China run by the East India Company.\


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