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Amitav Ghosh is the author of several works of fiction that have earned him prestigious international awards over the last twenty years. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages, and his essays have been published in major periodicals in the United States. He has taught at many universities in India and the United States, including Delhi University, Columbia, Queens College, and Harvard. In January 2007 he received the Padma Shri, one of India’s highest honors, from the president of India, and in 2010, honorary doctorates from Queens College, New York, and the Sorbonne, Paris.