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Amitav Ghosh

Forfatterbiografi

Amitav Ghosh (født 11. juli 1956) er en indisk forfatter, der skriver på engelsk og er kendt for at sammenvæve historiefortælling, samfundsanalyse og sans for myter og fortælleformer. Han har international betydning i moderne litteratur, især gennem romaner og essays, der undersøger global sammenhæng mellem kolonitid, handel, migration og kulturmøder. Hans arbejde kredser ofte om detaljerede historiske miljøer og om, hvordan fortiden og naturen griber ind i menneskers liv. I 2021 udgav han Jungle Nama, en illustreret digterisk bearbejdning af en legende fra Sundarbans’ mangroveskove. Værket fremstår som en poetisk fortælling, der kobler traditionel bengalsk verseform med et nutidigt blik for stedets økologi og etik. Blandt Ghoshs øvrige centrale romaner er The Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace og The Hungry Tide, som hver især har været med til at forme hans ry som en fortæller, der kan forbinde det private med det historiske i stor skala. Ghosh har modtaget flere betydelige priser og udmærkelser, herunder Tagore Literature Award og Dan David Prize, og han blev i 2018 tildelt Jnanpith Award, en af Indiens mest prestigefyldte litterære hædersbevisninger. Afsnittet om hans modtagelser på hans egen hjemmeside underbygger bredden i hans anerkendelse, både nationalt og internationalt.

Bøger af Amitav Ghosh

'Uncanny and Improbable Events'
'Uncanny and Improbable Events'

Bog | Engelsk

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In this personal and wide-ranging exploration of how our collective imaginations fail to grasp the scale of environmental destruction, Amitav Ghosh summons writers and n

'The Calcutta Chromosome'
'The Calcutta Chromosome'

Bog | Engelsk

In this extraordinary novel, Amitav Ghosh navigates through time and genres to present a unique tale. Beginning at an unspecified time in the future and ranging back to the late nineteenth century, the reader follows the adventures of the enigmatic L. Mur

'The Shadow Lines'
'The Shadow Lines'

Bog | Engelsk

A wide-eyed boy growing up in suburban Calcutta in the 1960s experiences the world through the eyes of others - an intoxicating older cousin, a grandmother who weaves stories from the past and a family in London whose lives are intertwined with his. When

'The Hungry Tide'
'The Hungry Tide'

Bog | Engelsk

A profound and absorbing saga from the Internationally Bestselling and Man Booker Prize shortlisted author 'Amitav Ghosh is such a fascinating and seductive writer I cannot think of another contemporary writer with whom it would be this thrilling to g

'The Glass Palace'
'The Glass Palace'

Bog | Engelsk

A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEEL MUKHERJEE The international bestseller from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author 'Ghosh has established himself as one of the finest prose writers of his generation' Financial Times Set in Burma during the

'Den store vildfarelse'
'Den store vildfarelse'

Bog | Dansk

Klimakrisen er også en kulturkrise og derfor en forestillingskrise. I Den store vildfarelse udfordrer den indiske for­fatter og essayist Amitav Ghosh vores kollektive evne til at konfrontere den største krise i vores tid klimaforandringerne. Med stor ind

'Gun Island'
'Gun Island'

Bog | Engelsk

Bundook . Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down. A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; on

'In An Antique Land'
'In An Antique Land'

Bog | Engelsk

In an Antique Land is a subversive history in the guise of a traveller's tale. When the author stumbles across a slave narrative in the margins of an ancient text, his curiosity is piqued. What follows is a ten year search, which brings author and sla

'Tidevandslandet'
'Tidevandslandet'

Lydbog | Dansk

MELLEM HAVET OG BENGALENS sletteland ligger et enormt vandområde med store og små floder og en masse småøer der med jævne mellemrum oversvømmes ved højvande eller direkte skylles væk når de jævnligt tilbagevendende tyfoner raser. Til dette område ankommer

'River of Smoke'
'River of Smoke'

Bog | Engelsk

'As hypnotic as an opium dream and pretty unputdownable' Daily Mail In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis , a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in

'Flood of Fire'
'Flood of Fire'

Bog | Engelsk

The thrilling climax to the Ibis trilogy that began with the phenomenal Booker-shortlisted Sea of Poppies. It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no reso

'Smoke And Ashes'
'Smoke And Ashes'

Bog | Engelsk

'A bracing new history of the global opium trade . . . Ghosh's tentacular history embraces opium's entanglement with furniture, architecture, gardens and its role in modern wars . . . But it's Ghosh's big-picture thinking that has made

'Jungle Nama'
'Jungle Nama'

Bog | Engelsk

'One of the finest writers of his generation' Financial Times Thousands of islands rise from the rivers' rich silts, crowned with forests of mangrove, rising on stilts. This is the Sundarban, where great rivers give birth; to a vast jungle tha

'The Nutmeg's Curse'
'The Nutmeg's Curse'

Bog | Engelsk

'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes Everything The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis. Tracing the

'Great Derangement'
'Great Derangement'

Lydbog | Engelsk

Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh

'The Great Derangement'
'The Great Derangement'

Bog | Engelsk

Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh

'Smoke And Ashes'
'Smoke And Ashes'

Bog | Engelsk

LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 'An acerbic, compelling and always accessible account of how opium corrupted the world' TLS 'The writing is sublime, the research thorough, the eye for story superb' Sunday Telegraph 'A history

'The Nutmeg's Curse'
'The Nutmeg's Curse'

Bog | Engelsk

'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes Everything The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis. Tracing the

'Wild Fictions'
'Wild Fictions'

Bog | Engelsk

From the 2025 recipient of the Pak Kyongni Prize, often referred to as Korea's Nobel Prize in Literature. A collection of essays on themes central to Ghosh's work: imperialism and decolonization, climate change, and the stories of ordinary people

'Wild Fictions'
'Wild Fictions'

Bog | Engelsk

'Brims with ideas and insights . . . Ghosh is at his sparkling best' IRISH TIMES Wild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writing on the subjects that have obsessed him over the last twenty-five years: literature and language

'Wild Fictions'
'Wild Fictions'

Bog | Engelsk

'Brims with ideas and insights . . . Ghosh is at his sparkling best' IRISH TIMES Wild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writing on the subjects that have obsessed him over the last twenty-five years: literature and language

'Smoke and Ashes'
'Smoke and Ashes'

Bog | Engelsk

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Foreign Policy , Literary Hub , and The Millions Ghosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own familythe climax of a yearslong project. When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his m