Novelist Amitav Ghosh wins Jnanpith Award-In recognition of ‘outstanding contribution towards literature’
- Eminent novelist Amitav Ghosh has been chosen for this year’s Jnanpith Award, the Bharatiya Jnanpith announced.
- The award is given to an author for “outstanding contribution towards literature”.
- Mr. Ghosh’s novels include Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, and the Ibis trilogy — Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire — discussing the opium trade between India and China run by the East India.
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