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Amitav Ghosh born 11 July [ 1 ] is an Indian writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in , India's highest literary honour. 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. Ghosh studied at The Doon School , Dehradun , and earned a doctorate in social anthropology at the University of Oxford.

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He worked at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi and several academic institutions. Between and , he worked on the Ibis trilogy , which revolves around the build-up and implications of the First Opium War. Ghosh holds two Lifetime Achievement awards and four honorary doctorates. In , he was a joint winner, along with Margaret Atwood , of a Dan David prize , and in , he was awarded the Grand Prix of the Blue Metropolis festival in Montreal.

He was the first English-language writer to receive the award. In , Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the most important global thinkers of the preceding decade. Ghosh was born in Calcutta on 11 July and was educated at the all-boys boarding school The Doon School in Dehradun.