Amitav Ghosh is an
Indian author,
well known for books such as
The Shadow Lines,
The Calcutta Chromosome,
The Hungry Tide,
The Circle of Reason, etc. He has done field work in
Egypt on the fellaheen
village of Lataifa, which resulted in the book
In an Antique Land
(1993).
The Shadow Lines won the
Sahitya Akademi Award, India's most prestigious literary prize. Ghosh is currently Distinguished Professor in Comparative Literature at the Queens College in the
City University of New York.