Authors 2008

Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956 and grew up in Bangladesh (at that time Oriental Pakistan), Sri Lanka, Iran and India. After graduating from the University of Delhi, he studied social anthropology at Oxford. Ghosh, defined as “the greatest Indian writer in the English language”, works as an anthropologist and journalist. The Circle of Reason won the Prix Medicis Etranger, one of France's top literary awards, and The Shadow Lines won the Sahitya Akademi Award & the Ananda Puraskar. The Calcutta Chromosome won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for 1997 and The Glass Palace won the Grand Prize for Fiction at the Frankfurt International e-Book Awards in 2001. The Hungry Tide won the Hutch Crossword Book Prize in 2006. In 2007 Amitav Ghosh was awarded the Grinzane Cavour Prize in Turin, Italy. He divides his time between Kolkata, Goa and New York where he teaches at Columbia University. On the 18th of September 2008, translation of The Hungry Tide will be released by Neri Pozza.

Anna Nadotti

Anna Nadotti is an essayist, adviser to Einaudi for literature from the India subcontinent and also translates. She has translated A.S. Byatt, Anita Desai, Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Chandra, Suketu Mehta, Ruth Ozeki, Satyajit Ray; and curated the edition by Enaudi of the stories of Mahasweta Devi. She writes for «l’Indice» and «il Manifesto». Collaborates with the Holden school; l’AIACE from Turin; The Free University for Woman, Milan; Fahreneit - RadioTre.