Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award 2016 for Amitav Ghosh
Q. Amitav Ghosh has won which award on 8th Nov 2016?- Published on 10 Nov 16a. Tata Books Live! Lifetime Achievement Award
b. Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award
c. Tata Writers Live! Lifetime Achievement Award
d. None of the above
ANSWER: Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award
Amitav Ghosh has won the
Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award for 2016 as per an announcement on
8th Nov 2016.- Ghosh is the Indian-American author best known for his English fiction work.
- He is an alumnus of The Doon School along with authors Vikram Seth and Ram Guha.
- He also received degrees from St. Stephen’s College, DU and DSE.
- He was also won the Inlaks Foundation scholarship.
- His debut novel launched in 1986 is The Circle of Reason.
- Other famous works in function include The Calcutta Chromosome,The Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace, Sea of Poppies and The Hungry Tide.
- Notable non-fiction writings include In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, At Large Burma, Countdown, The Imam and The Indian.
- His debut book The Circle of Reason won the Prix Medicis etranger, a top literary award in France.
- The Shadow Lines won the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Ananda Puraskar.
- Sea of Poppies was shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
- Government of India awarded him the the Padma Shri in 2007.
- The award was instituted by the festival to recognise and honour outstanding contributions in Indian literary space.
- Past recipients of the award include VS Naipaul, Khushwant Singh, Mahasweta Devi and MT Vasudevan Nair.
- Since its inception, TATA Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest has been constituted to honour achievements by emerging and accomplished Indian writers.
