Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh is the Literary Arts Series author and will be speaking April 14, 2016.
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh
and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria and is the
author of The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land,
Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The
Hungry Tide, and the first two volumes of The Ibis Trilogy; Sea of
Poppies, and River of Smoke.from author’s site
His 2015 Berlin Family Lectures are background to the literature,
history, and politics of climate change.“The
Great Derangement: Fiction, History, and Politics in the Age of Global
Warming”