Ghosh returned to India to begin working on the Ibis trilogy which includes Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011), and Flood of Fire ( 2015). He was awarded the Padma Shri by the Indian government in 2007. In 2015 Ghosh was named a Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
The thesis, undertaken in the Faculty of Anthropology and Geography, was entitled "Kinship in relation to economic and social organization in an Egyptian village community" and submitted in 1982. in social anthropology at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, under the supervision of British social anthropologist Peter Lienhardt. He then won the Inlaks Foundation scholarship to complete a D.
After Doon, he received degrees from St Stephen's College, Delhi University, and Delhi School of Economics. While at school, he regularly contributed fiction and poetry to The Doon School Weekly (then edited by Seth) and founded the magazine History Times along with Guha. His contemporaries at Doon included author Vikram Seth and historian Ram Guha. He grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Ghosh was born in Calcutta on 11 July 1956 and was educated at the all-boys boarding school The Doon School in Dehradun. In 2019 Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the most important global thinkers of the preceding decade. He was the first English-language writer to receive the award. In 2010 he was a joint winner, along with Margaret Atwood of a Dan David prize, and 2011 he was awarded the Grand Prix of the Blue Metropolis festival in Montreal. In 2007 he was awarded the Padma Shri, one of India's highest honours, by the President of India. Ghosh holds two Lifetime Achievement awards and four honorary doctorates. His non-fiction work includes In an Antique Land and The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. Between 20, he worked on the Ibis trilogy, which revolves around the build-up and implications of the First Opium War. His first novel The Circle of Reason was published in 1986, which he followed with later fictional works including The Shadow Lines and The Glass Palace. He worked at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi and several academic institutions. Ghosh studied at The Doon School, Dehradun, and earned a doctorate in social anthropology at the University of Oxford.
He has written historical fiction and also written non-fiction works discussing topics such as colonialism and climate change. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honor. The Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace, Ibis trilogy, The Great DerangementĪmitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956) is an Indian writer.
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