One of India’s leading contemporary English writers, Amitav Ghosh, has been honoured with 2018’s Jnanpith Award, a literary recognition given to an author for “outstanding contribution towards literature”. The author will receive the award from former Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi at a function in New Delhi today. AdvertisingHere are some must-read books by the author, who is the first Indian writer in English to have been chosen for the 54th Jnanpith Award honour. The novel has historical as well as mythological elements, and Ghosh won the Prix Medici Etranger Award for this book. Available at: Amazon.inPrice: Rs 218 (paperback)

Source: Indian Express June 12, 2019 07:30 UTC