Renowned Litterateur Amitav Ghosh To Be Presented With 54th Jnanpith Award 

Renowned writer Amitav Ghosh will be awarded the prestigious Jnanpith for his contribution to literature.

On Friday (14 December), Bharatiya Jnanpith announced the news on their website and the selection board chaired by Pratibha Ray picked Ghosh for the award this year. This is the 54th Jnanpith Award.

Deccan Herald quoted Bharatiya Jnanpith as saying, “Amitav Ghosh is a path-breaking novelist. In his novels, Ghosh treads through historical settings to the modern era and weaves a space where the past connects with the present in relevant ways. His fiction is endowed with extraordinary depth and substance through his academic training as a historian and a social anthropologist.”

Earlier, he secured the Sahitya Akademi Award for Shadow Lines and was later awarded the Prix Médicis étranger by France in 1990 for The Circle of Reason. Ghosh was born in Kolkata and has lived in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

In 2007, Government of India honoured Ghosh with the Padma Shri. He went on to receive honorary doctorates from Queens College (New York) and Sorbonne (Paris). His latest work is The Great Derangement, which is based on climate change.