Amitav Ghosh becomes first writer in English to win Jnanpith
Writer Amitav Ghosh has been conferred with the 54th Jnanpith Award, a literary award presented to an author for "outstanding contribution towards literature". Ghosh is the first Indian writer in English to win the award. "Ghosh is a path-breaking novelist...His fiction is endowed with nextraordinary depth and substance," a statement from Bharatiya Jnanpith read.nn