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 Ibis Trilogy, consisting of Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke and Flood of Fire. The Great Derangement; Climate Change and the Unthinkable, a work of non-fiction, appeared in 2016. Gun Island, was released in September 2019. Ghosh’s first-ever book in verse, Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban, was published February 2021. His next book, The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, was released in October, 2021. His latest book, Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories was released in February 2024.
Wits University, WiSER, the Presidential Climate Commission, and the University of Pretoria will be hosting Award-winning author, Amitav Ghosh, for a series of events this September. See below for details of each event.
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| Tuesday 10/09/24 |
Lecture at Wits University, co-hosted by Wiser and Wits School of Literature, Language and Media. | Title: Intimations of Apocalypse: Catastrophist and Gradualist Imaginings of the Planetary Future Please RSVP by emailing najibha.deshmukh@wits.ac.za. |
13h00 | WiSER Seminar Room, Wits University |
| Wednesday 11/09/24 |
Pro Vice-Chancellor’s Lecture | Title: Deadly Simplifications: Imagining the Future in a Warming World Register Here |
16h00 | Wits Senate Room (also Hybrid event) |
| Thursday 12/09/24 |
Book Launch and Book Signing | Launch of Smoke and Ashes, and book signing Please RSVP by emailing kate@lovebooks.co.za or 011 726 7408 |
17h30 for 18h00 |
Love Books, Melville, Johannesburg |
| Friday 13/09/24 |
Centre for Asian Studies in Africa, University of Pretoria Lecture | Writing the Lineages of Ecological Violence Register Here |
15h30 |
The Main Auditorium – Future Africa Campus, University of Pretoria |
Enquiries: Julia.Taylor@wits.ac.za
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