Author Biography
Indian writer and anthropologist Amitav Ghosh—winner of the 2024 Erasmus Prize—has addressed the human cost of today’s planetary crisis in his fictional and nonfictional work. He is the bestselling author of 10 novels, including the Ibis Trilogy (2008–2015), The Hungry Tide (2004), and Gun Island (2019), and of several works of nonfiction, from The Great Derangement (2016) to The Nutmeg’s Curse (2021). Amitav holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Oxford and has been a full-time writer since 2004. In 2024, he was a short-term visiting scholar at the RCC, giving talks including the one published here.
