AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AMITAV GHOSH TO READ AT UNIVERSITY
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Amitav Ghosh, whose most recent novel "The Glass Palace" won the Grand Prize for Fiction, Frankfurt eBook Award in 2001, will read from his work at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 20, in Giffels Auditorium on the University of Arkansas campus.
Amitav Ghosh is one of the most widely known Indians writing in English today. His books include "The Circle of Reason," "The Shadow Lines," "In an Antique Land," "Dancing in Cambodia" and "The Calcutta Chromosome," as well as "The Glass Palace."
Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He studied at St. Stephen's College, Delhi; St. Edmund Hall, Oxford; and the Faculty of Arts, University of Alexandria. He worked for the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi, and he earned his doctorate in Oxford before he wrote his first novel.
"The Circle of Reason" won the Prix Medici Estranger, one of France's top literary awards, and "The Shadow Lines" won the Sahitya Akademi Award, India's most prestigious literary prize.
"The Calcutta Chromosome" won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for 1997, and Ghosh was the winner of the 1999 Pushcart Prize for an essay that was published in the Kenyon Review.
In 1999, Ghosh joined the faculty at Queens College in the City University of New York as Distinguished Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature.
The reading, sponsored by the UA Programs in Creative Writing is free and open to the public.
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Teri McGrath, Publicity Director of the Fall 2002 Reading Series, English Department, 575-4301 or 283-1200, tmcgrat@uark.eduHeadlines
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