Author Amitav Ghosh has been awarded the prestigious Erasmus Prize 2024 for his passionate contribution to the theme ‘imagining the unthinkable’ for bringing forth the global crisis of climate change through the written word.
- He is the author of the bestsellers such as The Nutmeg’s Curse, The Hungry Tide, The Great Derangement among others.
- Amitav Ghosh was awarded the prize by the Netherland’s Praemium Erasmianum Foundation. The Erasmus Prize is a distinction for persons or institutions that have made an exceptional contribution to culture or scholarship, in Europe and beyond.
- The Prize consists of a sum of money of Euro 150,000 and adornments.
