WRITER

Amitav Ghosh

1956 - Today

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Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956) is an Indian writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amitav Ghosh has received more than 1,762,410 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Amitav Ghosh is the 5,084th most popular writer (up from 5,122nd in 2019), the 647th most popular biography from India (down from 598th in 2019) and the 98th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Amitav Ghosh ranks 5,084 out of 7,302. Before him are Leslie Charteris, Marin Preda, Olive Schreiner, Júlia Szendrey, Jacques Chessex, and Ramón Pérez de Ayala. After him are Alfhild Agrell, Max Beerbohm, William Davenant, Riichi Yokomitsu, Elaine May, and Savo Kostadinovski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Amitav Ghosh ranks 322. Before him are François Hesnault, Tim McInnerny, Sean Kelly, László Kiss, Jeremy Wade, and Lev Avnerovich Leviev. After him are Andro Knego, Jamie Dimon, Aleksandr Kaleri, Tim Daly, Bill Maher, and Ted Gärdestad.

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In India

Among people born in India, Amitav Ghosh ranks 647 out of 1,861. Before him are Sulochana Gadgil (1944), Syama Prasad Mukherjee (1901), Gautam Adani (1962), Ashok Gehlot (1951), Usha Mangeshkar (1935), and Christian Zacharias (1950). After him are Medha Patkar (1954), Bindu (1951), Shah Shuja (1616), Nana Patekar (1951), Cornelia Sorabji (1866), and Farida Jalal (1949).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Amitav Ghosh ranks 98. Before him are Qurratulain Hyder (1927), Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1890), Kedarnath Singh (1934), Swarnakumari Devi (1855), Sahir Ludhianvi (1921), and Pratibha Ray (1944). After him are Cornelia Sorabji (1866), Ismat Chughtai (1915), Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775), Nalini Bala Devi (1898), Roshanara Begum (1617), and Shrilal Shukla (1925).

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