News and Events
Forthcoming
- November 15, 2013
'Indian Ocean' event
chaired by Professor Clare Anderson
Leicester University
- November 13, 2013
'Literary Leicester'
- April 10-13, 2013
Incroci di civiltà (Crossings of Civilizations)
Venice
- March 21, 2013
Keynote address
"Languages and Democracy" conference
University of Miami
- Feb 2, 2013
6.30 pm
'The Ibis in mid-voyage'
With Prof Sukanta Chaudhuri
At the Kolkata Book Fair.
Google dome,
Milan Mela Grounds
Kolkata - India
- January 13-15, 2013
Keynote Address
“Celebrating a Treasure: 140 Years at the First Dastoor Meherjirana Library."
Navsari
Gujarat
concluded
- December 5-7, 2012
Zell Distinguished International Writer
University of Michigan
- December 3, 2012
Raymond West Lecture
Stanford University
http://shc.stanford.edu/events/calendar/2012-12-3-amitav-ghosh-quotchina-and-the-making-of-modern-india-a-story-of-fantasy-abuse-and-recovered-memoryquot.html
- November 28-29, 2012
Keynote Address,
6th National Conference of Humanities Research,
School of Humanities,
University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce
in collaboration with National Research Council
Bangkok, Thailand.
- November 27, 2012
7:00 – 8:30 pm
- ARI ASIA TRENDS and NSC ANNUAL LECTURE
China and the Making of Modern India: A Story of Fantasy, Abuse and Recovered Memory
Venue: National Library Board, The Possibility Room, Level 5,
100 Victoria Street, Singapore 188064
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=15&eventid=1297
- November 26, 2012
2:00 – 6:30 pm
- ROUNDTABLE ON RETHINKING THE ASIAN CENTURY WITH THE ARTS
Venue: Asian Civilisations Museum, Ngee Ann Auditorium, Basement 1
1 Empress Place Asian
Civilisations Museum, Singapore 179325
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=1308
- November 25, 2012
12:00 – 2:00 pm
- READINGS OF THE “SEA OF POPPIES" AND "RIVER OF SMOKE"
Venue: The Tanglin Club (Raffles & Draycott Rooms)
5 Stevens Road, Singapore 257814
- Nov 22-23, 2012
Bharatasamay International Conference on Indian Writing in English
Chulalongkorn University,
Bangkok, Thailand.
- Nov 22, 2012
10.50 - 12.00
Amitav Ghosh: A Dialogue
With Wasana Wongsurawat, Ph.D
Lecturer, Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University and
Verita Sriratana
Special Lecturer, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
MC: Anupama Masali
PhD. Candidate, Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University
Room No. 105
Maha Chulalongkorn Building
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok
- Nov 22, 2012
9.35 am - 10.30 am
Keynote Address: Bharatsamay Conference
'Where China and India met: Canton (Guangzhou) in the 18th and 19th centuries'
Room No. 105
Maha Chulalongkorn Building
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok
- Nov 22, 2012
8 pm
An Evening with Amitav Ghosh
Foreign Correspondent's Club
Bangkok.
- Nov 17, 2012
Reading from 'The Glass Palace'
Indian Consulate
Mandalay, Myanmar
- Nov 15, 2012
5.30 pm
Reading from 'The Glass Palace'
Indian Embassy
Yangon, Myanmar.
- Nov 7, 2012
6 p.m.
'Maritime trade with China and its role in the making of modern India.'
Naval War College
Goa.
- October 26 2012
7:30-9 pm
Keynote Address
For 'A Cross Cultural & Interdisciplinary Conference on Strategies of (Un)Silencing' in Yerevan, Armenia
A Blind Dates Project Initiative
http://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/blind-dates-project-presents-strategies-of-unsilencing/
Venue: American University of Armenia Alex and Marie Manoogian Hall
Yerevan , Armenia.
- Oct 11, 2012
Release of the Norwegian edition of 'River of Smoke'
House of Literature
Oslo
Norway
- October 9, 2012
3:15 p.m. - 5 pm
Annual Lecture
Norwegian Asia Research Network
University of Oslo
Norway
- October 4, 2012
Keynote Speech
'Imagining Europe'
European Cultural Foundation
Amsterdam
- October 2, 2012
Lecture on the occasion of the release of the Czech Edition of 'In An Antique Land'
Prague
Czech Republic
- Sept 5-6, 2012
Kenyon College visit
Ohio, USA.
- May 11-13, 2012
Turin Book Fair
May 12
1.30-2.30 pm: Book event with Giovanna Zucconi, Sala Azzura, International Book Fair, Turin, Italy.
6.30-7.30 pm, interview with Claudio Gorlier, Settimo Torinese, Biblioteca Multime Diale, Turin.
- April 27, 2012
Keynote address:
'Novel Worlds'
4 p.m., Nasher Hall
Duke University
- April 25, 2012
John Richards' Lecture in World History,
4 pm. Dick White Auditorium
Duke University
- April 19, 2012
Public Lecture
Museum of British Art
Yale University
- April 17, 2012
Schlesinger Program Reading
Yale University
- April 11-12, 2012
Visit to Brown University, RI
- April 3, 2012
Reading,
Memorial Chapel
Wesleyan University
Connecticut, USA
- April 1, 2012
Public Lecture
Peabody Essex Museum
Salem
Massachusetts
- March 19, 2012
Reading
University of Buffalo
- March 17, 2012
Keynote Address
Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference
Toronto,
Canada
- March 15, 2012
2011 Man Asian Literary Prize Dinner
Chatham Room, Level 7
Conrad Hong Kong
Pacific Place
88 Queensway
Hong Kong
- March 14 , 2012
Event: Meet Man Asian Finalists
Time: 7:00 - 9:30pm
Venue: Club Lusitano, 23/F, 16 Ice House Street, Central, Hong Kong
- March 4-6, 2012
Fabula Festival
Ljubljana
Slovenia
- March 2, 2012
'Storytelling and the Global Past: A Conversation with Natalie Zemon Davis and Amitav Ghosh'
Chair: Dr. John-Paul Ghobrial (Churchill College, Cambridge)
17:00 - 18:30
CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road
Cambridge, UK.
For further details, please go to:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1899/
- Feb 25, 2012
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
16.30 -17.30 Lecture Theatre
Amitav Ghosh will be interviewed by BBC journalist Razia Iqbal on his use of NMM records for imagining lives of unrecorded people, sailors and migrants whilst researching his novel “The Sea of Poppies”, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize 2008.
- Italian Release of 'River of Smoke' (Il fiume dell opio)
November 7-10, 2011.
Rome, Italy.
Presentation of 'Il Fiume del'Oppio' (River of Smoke) with Irene Bignardi and Goffredo Foffi.
Nov 9, 2011
6.30 pm
Casa delle Letterature
Piazza dell’Orologio, 3
Rome
- ASIA SOCIETY
November 3, 2011
Amitav Ghosh in conversation with Jonathan Spence,
introduced by Orville Schell
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
725 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Contact: Michael Roberts
212-327-9238
mroberts@asiasociety.org
- Massachusetts
November 1, 2011
4:30 p.m., Cole Assembly Room,
Converse Hall,
Amherst College,
Massachusetts
- New York City
GREENLIGHT BOOKSTORE
7:30 PM, Thursday, October 27, 2011.
686 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Contact: Jessica Stockton Bagnulo
(718) 246-0200
jessica@greenlightbookstore.com
http://abookstoreinbrooklyn.blogspot.com/
- New York City
MCNALLY JACKSON
7:00 PM, Wednesday, October 26, 2011.
52 Prince Street
New York, NY 10012
Contact: Michele Filgate
212-274-1160
mfilgate@gmail.com
http://www.readingisbreathing.wordpress.com
- HARBOURFRONT FESTIVAL
Tuesday, October 25, 2011.
Toronto.
- Canada
OTTAWA BOOK FESTIVAL
Monday, October 24, 2011.
- Chicago
CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL
In Conversation with Victoria Lautman
4:00 PM, Sunday, October 23, 2011.
University of Chicago
Mandel Hall
Contact: Corrina Lesser
312.661.1028 ext. 12
corrinal@chfestival.org
www.chicagohumanities.org
- Austin
TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL
Saturday, October 22, 2011.
610 Brazos
Suite 200
Austin, TX 78701
Contact: Clay Smith
(512) 472-3808
Clay@texasbookfestival.org
- San Francisco
- KEPLER'S BOOKS
7:00 PM, Thursday, October 20, 2011.
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Contact: Pam Grange
650 856 0978
pam@keplers.com
- San Francisco
MECHANICS' INSTITUTE LIBRARY
6:00 PM , Wednesday, October 19, 2011.
57 Post Street
Suite 407
San Francisco, CA 94104
Contact: Laura Shepard
415-393-0114
events@milibrary.org
www.milibrary.com
- Seattle
ELLIOTT BAY BOOK COMPANY
Co-sponsored by Seattle Arts & Lectures
7:30 PM, Tuesday, October 18, 2011.
Town Hall
1119 8th Avenue
Seattle, WA
Contact: Rick Simonson
206-624-6640
rsimonson@elliottbaybook.com
- Seattle
SEATTLE ARTS & LECTURES
7:30 PM, Monday, October 17, 2011.
Kirkland Performing Arts Center
350 Kirkland Avenue
Kirkland, WA
Contact: Linda Bowers
206-621-2230 x 15
linda@lectures.org
- Seattle
INDIA ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN WASHINGTON
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM,
Monday, October 17 , 2011.
University of Washington
Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall
NE 41st Street and 15th Avenue
Seattle, WA
Contact: Bharti Kirchner
206-547-8027
bhartik@aol.com
Introduction by Dr. Priti Ramamurthy
Reading followed by an in-conversation with Bharti
- Western Massachusetts
ODYSSEY BOOKSHOP
7:00 PM, Saturday, October
8, 2011.
9 College St.
South Hadley, MA 01705
Contact: Sydney Towne
413-534-7307
odysseynews@aol.com
- New York City
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY
In conversation with Leonard Lopate
4:00 PM, Saturday, October 1, 2011.
Central Library
Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY
Contact: Meredith Walters
718-369-9385 ext 158
M.Walters@brooklynpubliclibrary.org
- Baltimore
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, Wednesday, September 28, 2011.
Sheridan Libraries
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Contact: Brian Shields
410-516-8337 office
bshields@jhu.edu
- Washington DC
POLITICS & PROSE
7:00 PM , Tuesday, September 27, 2011.
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20008
Contact: Mike Giarratano
202-363-7663
events@politics-prose.com
- New York
RUSSIAN SAMOVAR
7:00 PM, Tuesday, September 20, 2011.
FSG Reading Series
256 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
- Brooklyn
BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Borough Hall
Brooklyn, NY
Contact: Tom McGinn bookfestival@visitbrooklyn.org
- São Paulo, Brazil: University of São Paulo,
September 11-12, 2011.
- Salvador, Brazil, Federal University of Bahia,
September 6, 2011.
- Rio de Janeiro International Book Fair,
September 1 -4, 2011.
- Release of 'River of Smoke' in India,
Hyderabad :
26th July 7 pm, Park Hotel, Hyderabad.
For invitations please write to publicity@in.penguingroup.com
Delhi :
1st July launch at the Aman, New Delhi at 7 pm.
For invitations please write to publicity@in.penguingroup.com
Chennai :
30th June launch at Taj Coromandel, Chennai at 7 pm.
For invitations please write to publicity@in.penguingroup.com
Bangalore :
27th launch at Taj West End, Bangalore at 7 pm
28th bookstore signings:
4.30 pm Pageturners (the Penguin bookstore on MG Road)
6.30 pm Reliance.
For invitations please write to publicity@in.penguingroup.com
Cochin:
23rd launch at Taj Malabar at 7 pm.
For invitations please write to publicity@in.penguingroup.com
Mumbai:
21st June launch at Trident Mumbai at 7 pm
22nd event at Crossword Kemps Corner at 7 pm.
For invitations please write to publicity@in.penguingroup.com
Calcutta:
18th June launch at Taj Bengal at 7 pm
20th - Bookstore visits (signings):
Oxford 5.00 - 5.40pm
Crossword 6.00 - 6.40 pm
Starmark 7.00 - 7.45 pm.
For invitations please write to publicity@in.penguingroup.com
- UK release, River of Smoke:
Monday 6th June
19:00 Royal Society of Literature
Interviewer: Linda Grant
Chair: Colin Thubron
At Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House
Tuesday, 7th June
20:00 Reading at:
Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath - event
Address: The Paragon, Bath, Somerset, BA1 5LS
Contact: Saber Khan, 01225 428111
Wednesday 8th June:
18:45 Asia House
Contact: Adrienne Loftus Parkins, 07718 319226
Moderator: Razia Iqbal, BBC
Followed by reception and book-signing
- Keynote address, 'India's World' Conference, at
the New School for Social Research, New York
May 10, 2011, 6 pm
(for details please go
to: http://www.newschool.edu/india or
http://www.newschool.edu/cps/indias-world/).
- Blue Metropolis Festival
April 27 - May 1, 2011, Montreal.
- 28th April 2011.
Amitav Ghosh receives the Blue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prix 2011.
Given by the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, Montreal, Canada, the Blue Metropolis Grand Prix is awarded each year to a world-renowned author in recognition of a lifetime of literary achievement. Previous recipients include: A.S.Byatt, Margaret Atwood, Carlos Fuentes, Paul Auster and Norman Mailer.
- Release of "Cozinha de Goa:history and tradition of Goan
food" by Fatima Gracias, Sunaparanta, Panjim, Goa - India 5:45 pm. March 29, 2011.
- Conference on “Amitav Ghosh: Writer Extraordinary”
Tarakeshwar College, West Bengal, India 25-26 March 2011.
'Abstracts'
- Release of Inside/Outside, a collection of writing from the Goa Writer's Group.
March 23, 2011, 6 pm, Literati, Candolim, Goa, India.
- Hong Kong International Literary Festival,
March 2011.
Zell Distinguished International Writer
University of Michigan
Raymond West Lecture
Stanford University
http://shc.stanford.edu/events/calendar/2012-12-3-amitav-ghosh-quotchina-and-the-making-of-modern-india-a-story-of-fantasy-abuse-and-recovered-memoryquot.html
Keynote Address,
6th National Conference of Humanities Research,
School of Humanities,
University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce
in collaboration with National Research Council
Bangkok, Thailand.
7:00 – 8:30 pm
China and the Making of Modern India: A Story of Fantasy, Abuse and Recovered Memory
Venue: National Library Board, The Possibility Room, Level 5,
100 Victoria Street, Singapore 188064
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=15&eventid=1297
2:00 – 6:30 pm
Venue: Asian Civilisations Museum, Ngee Ann Auditorium, Basement 1
1 Empress Place Asian
Civilisations Museum, Singapore 179325
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=1308
12:00 – 2:00 pm
Venue: The Tanglin Club (Raffles & Draycott Rooms)
5 Stevens Road, Singapore 257814
Bharatasamay International Conference on Indian Writing in English
Chulalongkorn University,
Bangkok, Thailand.
10.50 - 12.00
Amitav Ghosh: A Dialogue
With Wasana Wongsurawat, Ph.D
Lecturer, Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University and
Verita Sriratana
Special Lecturer, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
MC: Anupama Masali
PhD. Candidate, Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University
Room No. 105
Maha Chulalongkorn Building
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok
9.35 am - 10.30 am
Keynote Address: Bharatsamay Conference
'Where China and India met: Canton (Guangzhou) in the 18th and 19th centuries'
Room No. 105
Maha Chulalongkorn Building
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok
8 pm
An Evening with Amitav Ghosh
Foreign Correspondent's Club
Bangkok.
Reading from 'The Glass Palace'
Indian Consulate
Mandalay, Myanmar
5.30 pm
Reading from 'The Glass Palace'
Indian Embassy
Yangon, Myanmar.
6 p.m.
'Maritime trade with China and its role in the making of modern India.'
Naval War College
Goa.
7:30-9 pm
Keynote Address
For 'A Cross Cultural & Interdisciplinary Conference on Strategies of (Un)Silencing' in Yerevan, Armenia
A Blind Dates Project Initiative
http://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/blind-dates-project-presents-strategies-of-unsilencing/
Venue: American University of Armenia Alex and Marie Manoogian Hall
Yerevan , Armenia.
Release of the Norwegian edition of 'River of Smoke'
House of Literature
Oslo
Norway
3:15 p.m. - 5 pm
Annual Lecture
Norwegian Asia Research Network
University of Oslo
Norway
Keynote Speech
'Imagining Europe'
European Cultural Foundation
Amsterdam
Lecture on the occasion of the release of the Czech Edition of 'In An Antique Land'
Prague
Czech Republic
Kenyon College visit
Ohio, USA.
Turin Book Fair
May 12
1.30-2.30 pm: Book event with Giovanna Zucconi, Sala Azzura, International Book Fair, Turin, Italy.
6.30-7.30 pm, interview with Claudio Gorlier, Settimo Torinese, Biblioteca Multime Diale, Turin.
Keynote address:
'Novel Worlds'
4 p.m., Nasher Hall
Duke University
John Richards' Lecture in World History,
4 pm. Dick White Auditorium
Duke University
Public Lecture
Museum of British Art
Yale University
Schlesinger Program Reading
Yale University
Visit to Brown University, RI
Reading,
Memorial Chapel
Wesleyan University
Connecticut, USA
Public Lecture
Peabody Essex Museum
Salem
Massachusetts
Reading
University of Buffalo
Keynote Address
Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference
Toronto,
Canada
2011 Man Asian Literary Prize Dinner
Chatham Room, Level 7
Conrad Hong Kong
Pacific Place
88 Queensway
Hong Kong
Event: Meet Man Asian Finalists
Time: 7:00 - 9:30pm
Venue: Club Lusitano, 23/F, 16 Ice House Street, Central, Hong Kong
Fabula Festival
Ljubljana
Slovenia
'Storytelling and the Global Past: A Conversation with Natalie Zemon Davis and Amitav Ghosh'
Chair: Dr. John-Paul Ghobrial (Churchill College, Cambridge)
17:00 - 18:30
CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road
Cambridge, UK.
For further details, please go to:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1899/
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
16.30 -17.30 Lecture Theatre
Amitav Ghosh will be interviewed by BBC journalist Razia Iqbal on his use of NMM records for imagining lives of unrecorded people, sailors and migrants whilst researching his novel “The Sea of Poppies”, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize 2008.
November 7-10, 2011.
Rome, Italy.
Presentation of 'Il Fiume del'Oppio' (River of Smoke) with Irene Bignardi and Goffredo Foffi.Nov 9, 2011
6.30 pm
Casa delle Letterature
Piazza dell’Orologio, 3
Rome
November 3, 2011
Amitav Ghosh in conversation with Jonathan Spence,
introduced by Orville Schell
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
725 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Contact: Michael Roberts
212-327-9238
mroberts@asiasociety.org
November 1, 2011
4:30 p.m., Cole Assembly Room,
Converse Hall, Amherst College,
Massachusetts
GREENLIGHT BOOKSTORE
7:30 PM, Thursday, October 27, 2011.
686 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Contact: Jessica Stockton Bagnulo
(718) 246-0200
jessica@greenlightbookstore.com
http://abookstoreinbrooklyn.blogspot.com/
MCNALLY JACKSON
7:00 PM, Wednesday, October 26, 2011.
52 Prince Street
New York, NY 10012
Contact: Michele Filgate
212-274-1160
mfilgate@gmail.com
http://www.readingisbreathing.wordpress.com
Tuesday, October 25, 2011.
Toronto.
OTTAWA BOOK FESTIVAL
Monday, October 24, 2011.
CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL
In Conversation with Victoria Lautman
4:00 PM, Sunday, October 23, 2011.
University of Chicago
Mandel Hall
Contact: Corrina Lesser
312.661.1028 ext. 12
corrinal@chfestival.org
www.chicagohumanities.org
TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL
Saturday, October 22, 2011.
610 Brazos
Suite 200
Austin, TX 78701
Contact: Clay Smith
(512) 472-3808
Clay@texasbookfestival.org
7:00 PM, Thursday, October 20, 2011.
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Contact: Pam Grange
650 856 0978
pam@keplers.com
MECHANICS' INSTITUTE LIBRARY
6:00 PM , Wednesday, October 19, 2011.
57 Post Street
Suite 407
San Francisco, CA 94104
Contact: Laura Shepard
415-393-0114
events@milibrary.org
www.milibrary.com
ELLIOTT BAY BOOK COMPANY
Co-sponsored by Seattle Arts & Lectures
7:30 PM, Tuesday, October 18, 2011.
Town Hall
1119 8th Avenue
Seattle, WA
Contact: Rick Simonson
206-624-6640
rsimonson@elliottbaybook.com
SEATTLE ARTS & LECTURES
7:30 PM, Monday, October 17, 2011.
Kirkland Performing Arts Center
350 Kirkland Avenue
Kirkland, WA
Contact: Linda Bowers
206-621-2230 x 15
linda@lectures.org
INDIA ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN WASHINGTON
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Monday, October 17 , 2011.
University of Washington
Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall
NE 41st Street and 15th Avenue
Seattle, WA
Contact: Bharti Kirchner
206-547-8027
bhartik@aol.com
Introduction by Dr. Priti Ramamurthy
Reading followed by an in-conversation with Bharti
ODYSSEY BOOKSHOP
7:00 PM, Saturday, October 8, 2011.
9 College St.
South Hadley, MA 01705
Contact: Sydney Towne
413-534-7307
odysseynews@aol.com
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY
In conversation with Leonard Lopate
4:00 PM, Saturday, October 1, 2011.
Central Library
Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY
Contact: Meredith Walters
718-369-9385 ext 158
M.Walters@brooklynpubliclibrary.org
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, Wednesday, September 28, 2011.
Sheridan Libraries
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Contact: Brian Shields
410-516-8337 office
bshields@jhu.edu
POLITICS & PROSE
7:00 PM , Tuesday, September 27, 2011.
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20008
Contact: Mike Giarratano
202-363-7663
events@politics-prose.com
RUSSIAN SAMOVAR
7:00 PM, Tuesday, September 20, 2011.
FSG Reading Series
256 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Borough Hall
Brooklyn, NY
Contact: Tom McGinn bookfestival@visitbrooklyn.org
September 11-12, 2011.
September 6, 2011.
September 1 -4, 2011.
Hyderabad :
26th July 7 pm, Park Hotel, Hyderabad.
For invitations please write to publicity@in.penguingroup.com
Delhi :
1st July launch at the Aman, New Delhi at 7 pm.
For invitations please write to publicity@in.penguingroup.com
Chennai :
30th June launch at Taj Coromandel, Chennai at 7 pm.
For invitations please write to publicity@in.penguingroup.com
Bangalore :
27th launch at Taj West End, Bangalore at 7 pm
28th bookstore signings:
4.30 pm Pageturners (the Penguin bookstore on MG Road)
6.30 pm Reliance.
For invitations please write to publicity@in.penguingroup.com
Cochin:
23rd launch at Taj Malabar at 7 pm.
For invitations please write to publicity@in.penguingroup.com
Mumbai:
21st June launch at Trident Mumbai at 7 pm
22nd event at Crossword Kemps Corner at 7 pm.
For invitations please write to publicity@in.penguingroup.com
Calcutta:
18th June launch at Taj Bengal at 7 pm
20th - Bookstore visits (signings):
Oxford 5.00 - 5.40pm
Crossword 6.00 - 6.40 pm
Starmark 7.00 - 7.45 pm.
For invitations please write to publicity@in.penguingroup.com
Monday 6th June
19:00 Royal Society of Literature
Interviewer: Linda Grant
Chair: Colin Thubron
At Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House
Tuesday, 7th June
20:00 Reading at:
Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath - event
Address: The Paragon, Bath, Somerset, BA1 5LS
Contact: Saber Khan, 01225 428111
Wednesday 8th June:
18:45 Asia House
Contact: Adrienne Loftus Parkins, 07718 319226
Moderator: Razia Iqbal, BBC
Followed by reception and book-signing
the New School for Social Research, New York
May 10, 2011, 6 pm
(for details please go to: http://www.newschool.edu/india or
http://www.newschool.edu/cps/indias-world/).
April 27 - May 1, 2011, Montreal.
Amitav Ghosh receives the Blue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prix 2011.
Given by the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, Montreal, Canada, the Blue Metropolis Grand Prix is awarded each year to a world-renowned author in recognition of a lifetime of literary achievement. Previous recipients include: A.S.Byatt, Margaret Atwood, Carlos Fuentes, Paul Auster and Norman Mailer.
Tarakeshwar College, West Bengal, India 25-26 March 2011.
'Abstracts'March 23, 2011, 6 pm, Literati, Candolim, Goa, India.
March 2011.