Amitav Ghosh
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The climate crisis casts a much smaller shadow on literary fiction than it does on the world. We are living through a crisis of culture – and of the imagination
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The author’s new book on climate change questions why the arts have been largely silent on the issue and says India must do more reduce its emissions
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We explore why writers cast off the shackles of the standalone novel with Amitav Ghosh and the crime writing duo Nicci Gerrard and Sean French
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High seriousness and low humour drive Ghosh’s fictional account of events in the years before the opium wars
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The books interview: The writer discusses boiling in his Delhi garret, climate change in the Bay of Bengal and finishing his opium wars trilogy
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From Hungary to Guadeloupe and the Republic of Congo, the 10 shortlisted writers inhabit literary territories that are new to many English readers. Judge Edwin Frank introduces a stellar line-up
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Amitav Ghosh among 10 writers up for the £60,000 fiction award, while big names Karl Ove Knausgaard and Haruki Murakami don’t make the cut
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Families are a central concern of writing from the subcontinent and its diaspora. Novelist Sandra Hunter picks out some of the best, from Jhumpa Lahiri to Meera Syal
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The Bengali Indian writer talks about the writing of the second book in his Ibis Trilogy, and tells us where he finds inspiration
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Justine Jordan: Some prize picks appear this month, including Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles, Georgina Harding's Painter of Silence and Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus
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The 'Asian Booker' has extended its shortlist from five to seven this year to accomodate 'the power and diversity' of the region's writing. Get to know it better here
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Review: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Shortlisted for last year's Booker, it gets across its message says Martin Hemming -
Review: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Ghosh spins a fine story, breathing exuberant life into a class- and caste-bound India of scoundrels, hypocrites and heroes. James Smart
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Amitav Ghosh's colonial tale brims with historical research, but its modern racial politics sound a false note
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Set in the run-up to the Opium Wars, Sea of Poppies, the first part of Amitav Ghosh's trilogy acts as a clever parable for British colonialism, says Adam Mars-Jones
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James Buchan climbs aboard Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh, the first part of a trilogy set at the time of the opium wars
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Cat Power | Chan Marshall | Miles Davis | Alan Shearer | Kylie Minogue | Peter Andre | Jonny Wilkinson | Catherine Zeta-Jones | Vikram Seth | Kiran Desai | Amitav Ghosh | Amit Chaudhari | Zadie Smith | Luc Besson | Scott Robinson | Richard 'Abs' Breen | Ritchie Neville | Jason Brown | Sean Conlon | Spice Girls
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Amitav Ghosh weaves a compelling story out of an expedition into the mangrove swamps in The Hungry Tide
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Alfred Hickling enjoys Amitav Ghosh's adventurous river trip in search of India's modern identity, The Hungry Tide
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Beginning in Mandalay at the end of the nineteenth century, when the British forcibly deposed the Burmese King Thebaw and moved him and his family into exile in India, the novel addresses the enormous changes which took place in the country in the twentieth century.
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Tense times for the administrators of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, who learned this week that Amitav Ghosh - whose The Glass Palace was awarded the Best Novel in the Eurasian section - has withdrawn from the competition.
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Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh has withdrawn his book from the Commonwealth Writers competition because he objects to the idea of his work being classified as "commonwealth literature" when the prize is only open to books written in English.
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The day before the millennial Booker Prize short list was announced, I received a puzzling email, tagged 'Booker Prize short list' announcing the selection of J.G. Ballard (Super Cannes), Zadie Smith (White Teeth), Robert Edric (The Book of the Heathen), Amitav Ghosh (The Glass Palace), Michael Ondaatje (Anil's Ghost) and Paul Golding (The Abomination).
Topics
- Fiction
- Awards and prizes
- Climate change
- Man Booker International prize
- Commonwealth book prize
- Booker prize
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Homer
- Fiction in translation
- Women's prize for fiction
- Man Booker International prize 2015
- India
- Poetry
- Politics
- Booker prize 2008
- London book fair
- Nicci French
- Booker prize 2000
- Haruki Murakami
- Michael Ondaatje
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