Amitav Ghosh to receive Jnanpith Award
December 14, 2018  17:06
image
Novelist Amitav Ghosh will receive with the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour in the country, reports said. . The Jnanpith award selection committee, which met in New Delhi, has unanimously agreed that Ghosh, an English language novelist, will get the award this year.


Ghosh, who was born in 1956, is best known for his work in English fiction writing. The writer thanked the selection committee:  "This is an amazing day for me,' he tweeted. "I never thought I would find myself on this list [of Jnanpith award recipients], with some of the writers I most admire.'


Also read our 2016 interview with Ghosh on climate change.
« Back to LIVE

TOP STORIES