One is that to me, since my childhood, this was the form that I loved best. But at the end of the day, I am first and foremost a novelist. The attention to detail comes, I think, from a reporter’s habit of taking notes, as much as from my training in anthropology and history. I would say that my work as a journalist (which started with my first job and continued through many years of writing for The New Yorker) played a greater part in my career as a writer than anthropology or history. Ghosh: I consider myself fortunate in having been exposed to many different forms of writing at different points in my life. How has your training as an anthropologist influenced your work as a novelist? What do you think about the relationship between historical nonfiction, literary fiction, and ethnographic writing? There’s striking attention to historical and ethnographic detail in your fiction. The Humanities Center’s annual Distinguished Visiting Humanist program-returning after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19-brings eminent scholars and public intellectuals to Rochester’s River Campus to engage with students, faculty, staff, and community members. In 2019, Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the most important global thinkers of the preceding decade. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages and his essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The New York Times. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including the award-winning novels The Circle of Reason, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Hungry Tide, Sea of Poppies, and Gun Island, as well as the nonfiction books The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable and The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. “It employs the tools of fiction, anthropology, history, and philosophy to address the most pressing global concern of our times: the climate crisis of the Anthropocene.”īorn in Kolkata, Ghosh grew up in India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. “Amitav Ghosh’s work is truly genre-defying,” says John Osburg, an associate professor and the chair of the Department of Anthropology. At the center of his narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice nutmeg, with its history of conquest and exploitation-of human life and the natural environment.Įssayist, novelist, and climate change activist Amitav Ghosh will be on campus in April as the University of Rochester’s 2021–22 Distinguished Visiting Humanist. In it, he traces the dynamics of today’s planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. Distinguished Visiting Humanist Public LectureĪmitav Ghosh speaks on his latest book, The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis.
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