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Amitav Ghosh

Laureate Erasmus Prize 2024

Theme: imagining the unthinkable

The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation has awarded the Erasmus Prize 2024 to the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh. He receives the prize for his passionate contribution to the theme ‘imagining the unthinkable’, in which an unprecedented global crisis – climate change – takes shape through the written word. Ghosh has delved deeply into the question of how to do justice to this existential threat that defies our imagination. His work offers a remedy by making an uncertain future palpable through compelling stories about the past. He also wields his pen to show that the climate crisis is a cultural crisis that results from a dearth of the imagination.

Theatrical performance of Jungle Nama

“Jungle-nama: a story of the sundarbans” with Amitav Ghosh & Ali Sethi (CEE Fellows) and directed by Brooke O’Harra from Experimental Ethnography @UPenn on Vimeo.

2021

Ali Sethi narrates the audio version of Amitav Ghosh’s JungleNama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUj-XDVWgE

2019

27 October, 2019
CHICAGO, IL

12:30 PM CT
CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL
Northwestern University
John J. Louis Room
Norris University Center
Evanston, IL

3 October, 2019
BROOKLYN, NY

BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238

28 September, 2019
HARBOR SPRINGS, MI
HARBOR SPRINGS BOOK FESTIVAL

26 September, 2019
MINNEAPOLIS, MN

7:30 PM
GRACE-TRINITY COMMUNITY CHURCH
Rain Taxi Event Series
1430 West 28th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55408

22 September, 2019
BROOKLYN

1:00 PM ET
BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL
Downtown Brooklyn/Brooklyn Heights
BROOKLYN BOROUGH HALL COURTROOM
209 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Human Nature Versus Nature / The Climate Conflict
with ; Pitchaya Sudbanthad (Bangkok Wakes to Rain) and Nell Zink (Doxology), moderated by Jennifer Acker (The Limits of the World).

The Movement of People: Modern Nomads and Migrants
With Somali-Italian author Igiaba Scebo and Helon Habila.

5:00 PM ET
BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL

Downtown Brooklyn/Brooklyn Heights
BROOKLYN BOROUGH HALL MEDIA ROOM
209 Joralemon St.
Brooklyn, NY 11201

19 September, 2019
SEATTLE, WA

7:30 PM PT
TOWN HALL SEATTLE – THE FORUM
1119 8th Ave (West Entrance)
Seattle, WA 98101
Co-presented w/ Elliott Bay

18 September, 2019
PORTLAND

7:30 PM PT
POWELL’S CITY OF BOOKS (BOOKSTORE)
1005 W Burnside St.
Portland, OR 97209

17 September, 2019
BAY AREA, CA

7:30 pm, PT
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF BERKELEY
2345 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
Organized by KPFA

13 September, 2019
WASHINGTON, DC

7:00 PM to 8:30 PM ET
POLITICS & PROSE
5015 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20008

12 September, 2019
SOUTH HADLEY, MA

7 pm
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE
Gamble Auditorium
Organized by Odyssey Bookshop

11 September, 2019
BOSTON/CAMBRIDGE

6:00 PM to 7:30 PM ET
BRATTLE THEATRE
Hosted by Harvard Book Store
40 Brattle St.
Cambridge, MA 02138

10 September, 2019
NEW YORK CITY
7:00 PM ET
In conversation with Nathaniel Rich, author of ‘Losing Earth; A Recent History’ and ‘Odds Against Tomorrow’.

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
476 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10018

31 August, 2019
WASHINGTON, DC

1:00 PM to 1:45 PM ET
In conversation w/ Bilal Qureshi
NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL
@ the Washington Convention Center
International Stage
801 Mt Vernon Pl NW
Washington, DC 20001

2:30 PM to 3:30 PM ET
Book signing
NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL
@ the Washington Convention Center
Signing Area
801 Mt Vernon Pl NW
Washington, DC 20001
Signing Line # 9.

2018

12th and 13th November, 2018
The Shadow Lines Thirty Years After
International Conference
Universities of Milano and Torino
Click on the link for details: The Shadow Lines Thirty Years After

2nd November, 2018
3:30 pm, Curtin 175
AMITAV GHOSH: ALL DERANGEMENTS, GREAT AND SMALL
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
Join us for a roundtable with acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh, Richard Grusin (Center for 21st Century Studies), Arijit Sen (SARUP), Jasmine Alinder (History), Rina Ghose (Geography), and Anne Bonds (Geography).

1st November, 2018
EMBATTLED EARTH: COMMODITIES, CONFLICT AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE INDIAN OCEAN
Reception: 6pm
Lecture: 7pm
UWM Peck School of Arts, Music Recital Hall

6th July, 2018
Lecture: AMITAV GHOSH, Can Non-Humans Speak? Other Beings in Myth, Literature and Ethnography
Biblioteca dell’Archiginnasio, Piazza Galvani, 1, 40124 Bologna (Italy)
Friday, July 6th, 7.30-8.30 pm
Link: http://aghct.org/ghosh2018
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/XGdfWeWnDXr

30th May, 2018: Milan
The Great Uprooting: Migration and Movement in the Age of Climate Change

27th May 2018
WIRED NEXTFEST 2018
https://nextfest2018-milano.wired.it/speaker/amitav-ghosh/

2017

May 23
Seoul International Forum for Literature
Literary Evening
KT olleh Square
Address. 178, Sejong-daero, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea

May 19
Salone Internazionale del Libro, Torino
IL CAMBIAMENTO CLIMATICO E L’IMPENSABILE
Lezione magistrale di Amitav Ghosh. In occasione della pubblicazione de “La grande cecità”
Oltre il confine, L’età ibrida, Superfestival
Attualità e politica
venerdì 19 maggio, ore 17:00
Sala Azzurra
a cura di
NERI POZZA EDITORE
Salone del libro
Festival Incroci di Civiltà di Venezia nell’ambito del Superfestival
partecipanti
Amitav Ghosh
Link: http://www.salonelibro.it/it/?option=com_content&view=article&id=17818:il-cambiamento-climatico-e-l-impensabile-13962&catid=294:2017&Itemid=143

May 18
Meeting with Amitav Ghosh
Turin University
Aula Magna, Campus Einaudi
Lungo Dora Siena 100 – Torino
Link: http://www.salonelibro.it/it/?option=com_content&view=article&id=18827:incontro-con-amitav-ghosh-15382&catid=294:2017&Itemid=143

May 17

May 5, 5.30 pm

April 27, 4.30 – 6 pm.
Public Event on The Great Derangement. 45mins Conversation on the book with Debjani Ganguly, followed by 45 mins of Q & A. Sponsored by the Environmental Humanities Colloquium.
Instt of Humanities and Global Cultures
University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA
Harrison Small Auditorium
Link: https://ihgc.as.virginia.edu/news/conversation-amitav-ghosh-great-derangement?width=75%25&height=auto&inline=true

April 26, 4.30-6 pm
Public Lecture, “From Bombay to Canton and Back: Traveling the Indian Ocean Trade Route”, Nau Hall 101, followed by book signing. University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Link: http://ihgc.as.virginia.edu/news/amitav-ghosh-public-lecture-bombay-canton-and-back-traveling-indian-ocean-opium-route?width=75%25&height=auto&inline=true

April 25, 4:00pm-5:30pm
6th Floor Moynihan Boardroom
Directions:
Wilson Center
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania, Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20004
Phone: 202.691.4000
WHS@wilsoncenter.org
Link to website

April 19, 10:15 a.m.
Reading
Whitney Humanities Center
Yale University
Link: http://whc.yale.edu/events

April 18, 5 pm
Finzi-Contini Lecture
Whitney Humanities Center
Yale University
Link: http://news.yale.edu/2017/02/15/award-winning-writer-amitav-ghosh-give-2017-finzi-contini-lecture

April 12, 8 pm
Mondavi Center
University of California Davis
Vanderhoef Studio Theatre
Link: https://www.mondaviarts.org/event/2016-17/amitav-ghosh

April 4, 4 pm.
Hesburgh/Yusko Ward-Phillips Lecture
Jordan Auditorium
Univ of Notre Dame
Link: http://kroc.nd.edu/news-events/news/indian-novelist-amitav-ghosh-deliver-hesburgh-lecture-ethics-public-policy-1945

March 30, 4:30 – 5:30 pm.
Friend Center Room 101
Princeton Environmental Institute
Link: https://environment.princeton.edu/calendar/global-perspectives-environmental-justice-series-amitav-ghosh

March 27,
Lafayette College
Easton PA
Link: https://calendar.lafayette.edu/node/18976

March 23, 4 pm – 6.30 pm
International Pavilion Ballroom
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona
Link: https://events.nau.edu/event/asian-studies-presents-a-talk-by-amitav-ghosh/

March 21, 7-9 pm
Lecture
Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona
Link: https://piper.asu.edu/events/amitav-ghosh

October 18, 6:00 PM
‘The Great Derangement’
Talk at Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Branch

October 5, 7 p.m.
‘The Great Derangement’, a conversation with Naomi Oreskes (author of (with Erik M. Conway) Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, 2010; and (with Erik M. Conway)The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future, 2014).
Rubin Museum, 150 West 17th Street, New York City

September 6
Perspectives on the Humanities Lecture, New York University, Shanghai.

September 1
Peking University, Beijing.
‘In an Antique Land’ in conversation with Liang Hong (author of China in Liang Village (中国在梁庄)2010, and Leaving Liang Village (出梁庄记, 2013).

August 31
Beijing Book Fair: Tea and Opium in India-China Connections

August 27
CIRCLES OF REASON
Mountain Echoes Festival, Thimpu, Bhutan
Time:4:50 pm-5:30 pm
Venue:Auditorium, Royal University of Bhutan
Speakers:Amitav Ghosh in conversation with Namgay Zam
Amitav Ghosh will discuss his fiction and nonfiction, his experiments with genre and language, and the wide sweep of ideas that his books encompass. From his first novel, Circle of Reason, to his latest nonfiction offering, The Great Derangement, the writer will talk about the journey that his books have taken him and his readers on.

August 26
THE GREAT DERANGEMENT: THE POLITICS OF THE CARBON ECONOMY
Mountain Echoes Festival, Thimpu, Bhutan
Time: 10:00 am – 10:40 am
Venue: Auditorium, Royal University of Bhutan
Speakers: Amitav Ghosh in conversation with His Excellency Ambassador Jaideep Sarkar

August 22
Keynote Address: Global Asia conference, New York University Shanghai,
The Great Derangement: India, China and the Anthropocene

August 21
Shanghai Library: Tea and Opium in India-China
Connections

August 20
Shanghai Book Fair: Writing and Imagining History

August 20
Sinan Mansions, Shanghai
‘In an Antique Land’: plural Values and modernity.
In conversation with Chen Yingfang (author of “Youth and Chinese Social Changes” &“Facing the Modern City:Problems and Methods”).

August 18
Hong Kong University
Canton and India-China Connections, a conversation between Amitav Ghosh, Helen Siu (author of Mao’s Harvest: Voices of China’s New Generation,and Furrows: Peasants, Intellectuals and the State), Dr John D. Wong, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, HKU; Angela Leung author of Leprosy in China: A History, 2009,and Health and Hygiene in East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century (co-editor: Charlotte Furth) 2010);& Tansen Sen(author of Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade: The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations, 600-1400, 2003, and co-author (with Victor H. Mair) of Traditional China in Asian and World History, 2012).

August 17
Asia Society
The Colonial Period and India-China Connections, a conversation between Amitav Ghosh, Mishi Saran(author of The Other Side of Light and Chasing the Monk’s Shadow: A Journey in the Footsteps of Xuanzang) and Tansen Sen (author of Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade: The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations, 600-1400, 2003, and co-author (with Victor H. Mair) of Traditional China in Asian and World History, 2012).

August 16
Canton and India-China Connections
Guangzhou, Guangdong
Hong Kong

August 9
Chengdu, Sichuan
Tea and Opium in India-China Connections

August 8
Chengdu, Sichuan
Writing and Imagining History

August 6
Kunming, Yunnan,
Tea and Opium in India-China Connections

1 August
Kolkata
ICCR Auditorium
Timing: 6:30 pm
In Conversation with: Srijit Mukherji

July 30
Express Adda,
Regal Room at The Lalit, New Delhi
7pm onwards

28 July
Chennai
Timing: 6:30
Taj Coromandel
In Conversation with: Gopal Gandhi (TBC)

27 July
Bangalore
Timing: 6:30 pm
Biological Science Auditorium, IISC
In Conversation with: Kartik Shanker, Rohan Nilekani and Sukumar Raman

20 July
Mumbai
Timing: 7:00 pm
The Hall of Culture, Nehru Centre
In Conversation with: Shyam Benegal (TBC)

19 July
Delhi
Timing: 7:15 pm
Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre
In Conversation with: Sunita Narain

July 10 – 14
New Delhi
Writer in residence, Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Friday, February 12, 2016 at 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Global Warming & the Rise of Asia: A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh and Prasenjit Duara
John L. Tishman Auditorium, University Center
63 Fifth Avenue, Room U100, New York, NY 10003
Link: https://events.newschool.edu/event/global_warming_the_rise_of_asia_a_conversation
_with_amitav_ghosh_and_prasenjit_duara#.VoynsxUrJzg

Sunday, January 24th 2016
U Thant Memorial Lecture
‘Empire and the Anthropocene: Asia’s Place in the Genealogy of Global Warming’.
U Thant House,
Yangon,
Myanmar

Saturday, January 16th 2016
8:00-10:00.
LITERARY DINNER
(Elysium)
LITERARY DINNER

Friday, January 15th 2016
11:00-12:00.
IN CONVERSATION.
(Hall de Galle)
AMITAV GHOSH on his Ibis Trilogy.

Thursday, January 14th 2016
Galle Festival, Sri Lanka
5:45-8:00.
Exhibition launch
(48 Lighthouse Street)
EarthLine by ANOMA WIJEWARDENE, with words by RAMYA CHAMALIE JIRASINGHE and a reading by AMITAV GHOSH.

August 10, 2015
DBS Presents the India Se & Singapore Writers’ Festival SG50 Literary Salon”
Venue: Mochtar Riady Auditorium at SMU
Time: 5.30 – 8.30PM

Tours & Events – United States of America

Venue	Description	Date M/D/Y	Time	Street address	City	State	Zip Code
Greenlight Bookstore	Reading, discussion, signing	09/03/2015	7.30pm	686 Fulton Street	Brooklyn	NY	11217
Asian American Writers Workshop	Reading, discussion, signing	09/10/2015	7.00pm	110-112 W. 27th Street	New York	NY	10001
Politics & Prose	Reading, discussion, signing	09/12/2015	6.00pm	5015 Connecticut Ave NW	Washington	DC	20016
McNally Jackson	Reading, discussion, signing	09/16/2015	52 Prince Street	New York	NY	10012
Boston Athenaeum	Reading, discussion, signing	09/23/2015	6.00pm	10 1/2 Beacon St	Boston	MA
Seattle Town Hall	Reading, discussion, signing	10/10/2015	7.30pm	1119 8th Ave	Seattle	WA	98101
Diesel, A Bookstore	Reading, discussion, signing	10/13/2015	6.30pm	5433 College Avenue	Oakland	CA	94618
Book Passage	Reading, discussion, signing	10/14/2015	7.00pm	51 Tamal Vista Blvd	Corte Madera	CA	94925
Books, Inc	Reading, discussion, signing	10/15/2015	7.00pm	1492 Shattuck Ave	Berkeley	CA	94709
Diesel hosting at local tbd restaurant	ticketed luncheon	10/16/2015	Larkspur	CA	94939
Calcutta Rescue	private fundraiser	11/07/2015	New York	NY

In conversation with :
Delhi – Shiv Shankar Menon
Kolkata – Sukanta Chaudhari
Chennai – Gopal Gandhi
Bangalore – Rohan Murthy
Mumbai – Shobhaa De
Pune – (No Conversation, only reading & talk)
Kochi – C Venkatesh

November 15, 2013
‘Indian Ocean’ event
chaired by Professor Clare Anderson
Leicester University
November 13, 2013
‘Literary Leicester’
April 10-13, 2013
Incroci di civiltà (Crossings of Civilizations)
Venice
March 21, 2013
Keynote address
“Languages and Democracy” conference
University of Miami
Feb 2, 2013
6.30 pm
‘The Ibis in mid-voyage’
With Prof Sukanta Chaudhuri
At the Kolkata Book Fair.
Google dome,
Milan Mela Grounds
Kolkata – India
January 13-15, 2013
Keynote Address
“Celebrating a Treasure: 140 Years at the First Dastoor Meherjirana Library.”
Navsari
Gujarat

December 5-7, 2012
Zell Distinguished International Writer
University of Michigan
December 3, 2012
Raymond West Lecture
Stanford University
http://shc.stanford.edu/events/calendar/2012-12-3-amitav-ghosh-quotchina-and-the-making-of-modern-india-a-story-of-fantasy-abuse-and-recovered-memoryquot.html
November 28-29, 2012
Keynote Address,
6th National Conference of Humanities Research,
School of Humanities,
University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce
in collaboration with National Research Council
Bangkok, Thailand.
November 27, 2012
7:00 – 8:30 pm
ARI ASIA TRENDS and NSC ANNUAL LECTURE
China and the Making of Modern India: A Story of Fantasy, Abuse and Recovered Memory
Venue: National Library Board, The Possibility Room, Level 5,
100 Victoria Street, Singapore 188064
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=15&eventid=1297
November 26, 2012
2:00 – 6:30 pm
ROUNDTABLE ON RETHINKING THE ASIAN CENTURY WITH THE ARTS
Venue: Asian Civilisations Museum, Ngee Ann Auditorium, Basement 1
1 Empress Place Asian
Civilisations Museum, Singapore 179325
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=1308
November 25, 2012
12:00 – 2:00 pm
READINGS OF THE “SEA OF POPPIES” AND “RIVER OF SMOKE”
Venue: The Tanglin Club (Raffles & Draycott Rooms)
5 Stevens Road, Singapore 257814
Nov 22-23, 2012
Bharatasamay International Conference on Indian Writing in English
Chulalongkorn University,
Bangkok, Thailand.
Nov 22, 2012
10.50 – 12.00
Amitav Ghosh: A Dialogue
With Wasana Wongsurawat, Ph.D
Lecturer, Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University and
Verita Sriratana
Special Lecturer, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
MC: Anupama Masali
PhD. Candidate, Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University
Room No. 105
Maha Chulalongkorn Building
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok
Nov 22, 2012
9.35 am – 10.30 am
Keynote Address: Bharatsamay Conference
‘Where China and India met: Canton (Guangzhou) in the 18th and 19th centuries’
Room No. 105
Maha Chulalongkorn Building
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok
Nov 22, 2012
8 pm
An Evening with Amitav Ghosh
Foreign Correspondent’s Club
Bangkok.
Nov 17, 2012
Reading from ‘The Glass Palace’
Indian Consulate
Mandalay, Myanmar
Nov 15, 2012
5.30 pm
Reading from ‘The Glass Palace’
Indian Embassy
Yangon, Myanmar.
Nov 7, 2012
6 p.m.
‘Maritime trade with China and its role in the making of modern India.’
Naval War College
Goa.
October 26 2012
7:30-9 pm
Keynote Address
For ‘A Cross Cultural & Interdisciplinary Conference on Strategies of (Un)Silencing’ in Yerevan, Armenia
A Blind Dates Project Initiative
http://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/blind-dates-project-presents-strategies-of-unsilencing/
Venue: American University of Armenia Alex and Marie Manoogian Hall
Yerevan , Armenia.
Oct 11, 2012
Release of the Norwegian edition of ‘River of Smoke‘
House of Literature
Oslo
Norway
October 9, 2012
3:15 p.m. – 5 pm
Annual Lecture
Norwegian Asia Research Network
University of Oslo
Norway
October 4, 2012
Keynote Speech
‘Imagining Europe’
European Cultural Foundation
Amsterdam
October 2, 2012
Lecture on the occasion of the release of the Czech Edition of ‘In An Antique Land’
Prague
Czech Republic
Sept 5-6, 2012
Kenyon College visit
Ohio, USA.
May 11-13, 2012
Turin Book Fair
May 12
1.30-2.30 pm: Book event with Giovanna Zucconi, Sala Azzura, International Book Fair, Turin, Italy.
6.30-7.30 pm, interview with Claudio Gorlier, Settimo Torinese, Biblioteca Multime Diale, Turin.
April 27, 2012
Keynote address:
‘Novel Worlds’
4 p.m., Nasher Hall
Duke University
April 25, 2012
John Richards’ Lecture in World History,
4 pm. Dick White Auditorium
Duke University
April 19, 2012
Public Lecture
Museum of British Art
Yale University
April 17, 2012
Schlesinger Program Reading
Yale University
April 11-12, 2012
Visit to Brown University, RI
April 3, 2012
Reading,
Memorial Chapel
Wesleyan University
Connecticut, USA
April 1, 2012
Public Lecture
Peabody Essex Museum
Salem
Massachusetts
March 19, 2012
Reading
University of Buffalo
March 17, 2012
Keynote Address
Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference
Toronto,
Canada
March 15, 2012
2011 Man Asian Literary Prize Dinner
Chatham Room, Level 7
Conrad Hong Kong
Pacific Place
88 Queensway
Hong Kong
March 14 , 2012
Event: Meet Man Asian Finalists
Time: 7:00 – 9:30pm
Venue: Club Lusitano, 23/F, 16 Ice House Street, Central, Hong Kong
March 4-6, 2012
Fabula Festival
Ljubljana
Slovenia
March 2, 2012
‘Storytelling and the Global Past: A Conversation with Natalie Zemon Davis and Amitav Ghosh’
Chair: Dr. John-Paul Ghobrial (Churchill College, Cambridge)
17:00 – 18:30
CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road
Cambridge, UK.
For further details, please go to:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1899/
Feb 25, 2012
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
16.30 -17.30 Lecture Theatre
Amitav Ghosh will be interviewed by BBC journalist Razia Iqbal on his use of NMM records for imagining lives of unrecorded people, sailors and migrants whilst researching his novel “The Sea of Poppies”, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize 2008.
Italian Release of ‘River of Smoke’ (Il fiume dell opio)
November 7-10, 2011.
Rome, Italy.
Presentation of ‘Il Fiume del’Oppio’ (River of Smoke) with Irene Bignardi and Goffredo Foffi.
Nov 9, 2011
6.30 pm
Casa delle Letterature
Piazza dell’Orologio, 3
Rome
ASIA SOCIETY
November 3, 2011
Amitav Ghosh in conversation with Jonathan Spence,
introduced by Orville Schell
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
725 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Contact: Michael Roberts
212-327-9238
mroberts@asiasociety.org
Massachusetts
November 1, 2011
4:30 p.m., Cole Assembly Room,
Converse Hall, Amherst College,
Massachusetts
New York City
GREENLIGHT BOOKSTORE
7:30 PM, Thursday, October 27, 2011.
686 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Contact: Jessica Stockton Bagnulo
(718) 246-0200
jessica@greenlightbookstore.com
http://abookstoreinbrooklyn.blogspot.com/
New York City
MCNALLY JACKSON
7:00 PM, Wednesday, October 26, 2011.
52 Prince Street
New York, NY 10012
Contact: Michele Filgate
212-274-1160
mfilgate@gmail.com
http://www.readingisbreathing.wordpress.com
HARBOURFRONT FESTIVAL
Tuesday, October 25, 2011.
Toronto.
Canada
OTTAWA BOOK FESTIVAL
Monday, October 24, 2011.
Chicago
CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL
In Conversation with Victoria Lautman
4:00 PM, Sunday, October 23, 2011.
University of Chicago
Mandel Hall
Contact: Corrina Lesser
312.661.1028 ext. 12
corrinal@chfestival.org
www.chicagohumanities.org
Austin
TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL
Saturday, October 22, 2011.
610 Brazos
Suite 200
Austin, TX 78701
Contact: Clay Smith
(512) 472-3808
Clay@texasbookfestival.org
San Francisco
KEPLER’S BOOKS
7:00 PM, Thursday, October 20, 2011.
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Contact: Pam Grange
650 856 0978
pam@keplers.com
San Francisco
MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE LIBRARY
6:00 PM , Wednesday, October 19, 2011.
57 Post Street
Suite 407
San Francisco, CA 94104
Contact: Laura Shepard
415-393-0114
events@milibrary.org
www.milibrary.com
Seattle
ELLIOTT BAY BOOK COMPANY
Co-sponsored by Seattle Arts & Lectures
7:30 PM, Tuesday, October 18, 2011.
Town Hall
1119 8th Avenue
Seattle, WA
Contact: Rick Simonson
206-624-6640
rsimonson@elliottbaybook.com
Seattle
SEATTLE ARTS & LECTURES
7:30 PM, Monday, October 17, 2011.
Kirkland Performing Arts Center
350 Kirkland Avenue
Kirkland, WA
Contact: Linda Bowers
206-621-2230 x 15
linda@lectures.org
Seattle
INDIA ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN WASHINGTON
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Monday, October 17 , 2011.
University of Washington
Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall
NE 41st Street and 15th Avenue
Seattle, WA
Contact: Bharti Kirchner
206-547-8027
bhartik@aol.com
Introduction by Dr. Priti Ramamurthy
Reading followed by an in-conversation with Bharti
Western Massachusetts
ODYSSEY BOOKSHOP
7:00 PM, Saturday, October 8, 2011.
9 College St.
South Hadley, MA 01705
Contact: Sydney Towne
413-534-7307
odysseynews@aol.com
New York City
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY
In conversation with Leonard Lopate
4:00 PM, Saturday, October 1, 2011.
Central Library
Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY
Contact: Meredith Walters
718-369-9385 ext 158
M.Walters@brooklynpubliclibrary.org
Baltimore
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, Wednesday, September 28, 2011.
Sheridan Libraries
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Contact: Brian Shields
410-516-8337 office
bshields@jhu.edu
Washington DC
POLITICS & PROSE
7:00 PM , Tuesday, September 27, 2011.
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20008
Contact: Mike Giarratano
202-363-7663
events@politics-prose.com
New York
RUSSIAN SAMOVAR
7:00 PM, Tuesday, September 20, 2011.
FSG Reading Series
256 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
Brooklyn
BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Borough Hall
Brooklyn, NY
Contact: Tom McGinn bookfestival@visitbrooklyn.org
São Paulo, Brazil: University of São Paulo,
September 11-12, 2011.
Salvador, Brazil, Federal University of Bahia,
September 6, 2011.
Rio de Janeiro International Book Fair,
September 1 -4, 2011.
Release of ‘River of Smoke’ in India,Hyderabad :
26th July 7 pm, Park Hotel, Hyderabad.
For invitations please write to publicity@in.penguingroup.comDelhi :
1st July launch at the Aman, New Delhi at 7 pm.
For invitations please write to publicity@in.penguingroup.comChennai :
30th June launch at Taj Coromandel, Chennai at 7 pm.
For invitations please write to publicity@in.penguingroup.com Bangalore :
27th launch at Taj West End, Bangalore at 7 pm
28th bookstore signings:
4.30 pm Pageturners (the Penguin bookstore on MG Road)
6.30 pm Reliance.
For invitations please write to publicity@in.penguingroup.comCochin:
23rd launch at Taj Malabar at 7 pm.
For invitations please write to publicity@in.penguingroup.comMumbai:
21st June launch at Trident Mumbai at 7 pm
22nd event at Crossword Kemps Corner at 7 pm.
For invitations please write to publicity@in.penguingroup.com

Calcutta:
18th June launch at Taj Bengal at 7 pm
20th – Bookstore visits (signings):
Oxford 5.00 – 5.40pm
Crossword 6.00 – 6.40 pm
Starmark 7.00 – 7.45 pm.
For invitations please write to publicity@in.penguingroup.com

UK release, River of Smoke:Monday 6th June
19:00 Royal Society of Literature
Interviewer: Linda Grant
Chair: Colin Thubron
At Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset HouseTuesday, 7th June
20:00 Reading at:
Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath – event
Address: The Paragon, Bath, Somerset, BA1 5LS
Contact: Saber Khan, 01225 428111Wednesday 8th June:
18:45 Asia HouseContact: Adrienne Loftus Parkins, 07718 319226
Moderator: Razia Iqbal, BBC
Followed by reception and book-signing
Keynote address, ‘India’s World’ Conference, at
the New School for Social Research, New York
May 10, 2011, 6 pm
(for details please go to: http://www.newschool.edu/india or
http://www.newschool.edu/cps/indias-world/).
Blue Metropolis Festival
April 27 – May 1, 2011, Montreal.
28th April 2011.
Amitav Ghosh receives the Blue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prix 2011.
Given by the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, Montreal, Canada, the Blue Metropolis Grand Prix is awarded each year to a world-renowned author in recognition of a lifetime of literary achievement. Previous recipients include: A.S.Byatt, Margaret Atwood, Carlos Fuentes, Paul Auster and Norman Mailer.
Release of “Cozinha de Goa:history and tradition of Goan food” by Fatima Gracias, Sunaparanta, Panjim, Goa – India 5:45 pm. March 29, 2011.
Conference on “Amitav Ghosh: Writer Extraordinary”
Tarakeshwar College, West Bengal, India 25-26 March 2011.
‘Abstracts’
Release of Inside/Outside, a collection of writing from the Goa Writer’s Group.
March 23, 2011, 6 pm, Literati, Candolim, Goa, India.
Hong Kong International Literary Festival,
March 2011.