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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 honor. 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 1,616,512 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Amitav Ghosh is the 5,140th most popular writer (down from 5,061st in 2019), the 602nd most popular biography from India (up from 639th in 2019) and the 90th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Amitav Ghosh ranks 5,140 out of 5,755. Before him are Zitkala-Sa, Kim Iryeop, Elmer Rice, Duran Çetin, Zoé Valdés, and Alan Woods. After him are Anita Desai, Fatos Kongoli, Joël Dicker, Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Arvid August Afzelius, and Patrick Chamoiseau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Amitav Ghosh ranks 334. Before him are Peter Buck, Ted Gärdestad, Henriette Reker, Marc Caro, Patti Hansen, and Bill Maher. After him are John James, Raimundo Pereira, Tengiz Sulakvelidze, Stella Kyriakides, François Hesnault, and Scholastique Mukasonga.

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In India

Among people born in India, Amitav Ghosh ranks 602 out of 1,493. Before him are Udit Narayan (1955), Persis Khambatta (1948), Margaret Abbott (1878), Narendra Dabholkar (1945), Manilal Gandhi (1892), and Abhishek Bachchan (1976). After him are Anita Desai (1937), Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947), Randhir Kapoor (1947), Ismat Chughtai (1915), Vijay Amritraj (1953), and Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Amitav Ghosh ranks 90. Before him are Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897), Shrilal Shukla (1925), Raghunath Murmu (1905), Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775), Ravindra Kelekar (1925), and Cornelia Sorabji (1866). After him are Anita Desai (1937), Ismat Chughtai (1915), Gurdial Singh (1933), Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872), Pratibha Ray (1944), and Javed Akhtar (1945).

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