Renowned English fiction writer Amitav Ghosh has been selected for Jnanpith award, 2018.
a. Amit Ghosh
b. Ameesh Ghosh
c. Amitav Ghosh
d. None of the above
- This has been announced by Jnanpith Selection Board on 14 December 2018.
About Amitav Ghosh:
- Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956.
- He is an alumnus of Doon School, Dehradun, St. Stephen's College, Delhi University and Delhi School of Economics.
- He was awarded Padma Shri in 2007 and was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009.
- He was also named Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow in 2015.
About his works:
- The Circle of Reason (1986) was his first novel. Other fiction works include The Shadow Lines (1988), The Calcutta Chromosome (1995), The Glass Palace (2000), The Hungry Tide (2004).
- He has also written three works as a part of The Ibis Trilogy of which the first volume is Sea of Poppies (2008); second volume is River of Smoke (2011); and third volume is Flood of Fire (2015).
- His notable non-fiction works include Antique Land (1992), Dancing in Cambodia and at Large in Burma (1998), Countdown (1999), and The Imam and the Indian (2002), The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016) etc.
About Jnanpith Award:
- Jnanpith award was instituted in 1961.
- Via this award, the Bhartiya Jnanpith recognises Indian litterateurs who write in one of the 22 Indian languages listed in the Schedule Eight of the Indian Constitution.
- The winners receive a cash prize, a citation and a bronze replica of Goddess Saraswati.
- Famous Malyalam writer G.S. Kurup was the first winner of Jnanpith.
Question:
Q. Which renowned English fiction writer has been selected for Jnanpith award, 2018?a. Amit Ghosh
b. Ameesh Ghosh
c. Amitav Ghosh
d. None of the above
