Amitav Ghosh to receive the Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award

The award will be presented to him at Tata Literature Live!’s annual awards ceremony to be held on Nov 20, 2016, at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Nariman Point, Mumbai.

The award has been instituted by the festival to recognise and honour outstanding contributions in the Indian literary space. Past recipients of the award include legendary writers Kiran Nagarkar in 2015, M T Vasudevan Nair in 2014, Khushwant Singh in 2013, Sir V S Naipaul in 2012 and Mahasweta Devi in 2011.

Amitav Ghosh says, “I am deeply honoured to be receiving the Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award. It is a privilege to be included in a list of such distinguished honorees.”

Ghosh’s work has been translated into more than twenty languages and he has served on the Jury of the Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland) and the Venice Film Festival (2001). In 2011, he was awarded the International Grand Prix of the Blue Metropolis Festival in Montreal.

Anil Dharker, Founder and Director, Literature Live!, says, “The list of finest contemporary Indian-English writers remains incomplete without the name of Amitav Ghosh. We at Tata Literature Live! are very excited to announce Ghosh as this year’s recipient of the Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award. His immense contribution to literature is well-known and recognised far and wide. We are looking forward to having him with us and hearing his riveting thoughts at the festival.”

Harish Bhat, Tata Sons, says, “Amitav Ghosh is an author extraordinaire who has not only made a prominent place in Indian literature but has also earned international acclaim for his outstanding work. It is an honour and an absolute pleasure to host him at the festival, and to present him with the Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award, celebrating his contribution to the literary milieu and the many feats he has to his name.”