{"id":426076,"date":"2024-11-26T05:53:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T05:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=426076"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Indian-author-Ghosh-wins-top-Dutch-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Indian-author-Ghosh-wins-top-Dutch-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian author Ghosh wins top Dutch prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed Indian author Amitav Ghosh has won the coveted Dutch Erasmus Prize for his writings on climate change and its impact on humanity, especially on the Indian subcontinent.<\/p>\n<p>Ghosh &#8220;has delved deeply into the question of how to do justice to this existential threat that defies our imagination,&#8221; the prize committee said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Erasmus Prize, due to be presented by Dutch King Willem-Alexander on Tuesday, is awarded for an &#8220;exceptional contribution to the humanities, the social sciences or the arts, in Europe and beyond.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The winner receives a cash prize of 150,000 euros ($157,000).<\/p>\n<p>The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, which awards the prize, noted that Ghosh had described how the effects of climate change have been &#8220;inextricably linked&#8221; to human destiny on the Indian subcontinent.<\/p>\n<p>It cited his work &#8220;The Hungry Tide&#8221;, which portrayed how rising sea levels were devastating life in the Sundarbans, the world&#8217;s largest mangrove forest.<\/p>\n<p>The 68-year-old&#8217;s work is also political, with &#8220;The Great Derangement&#8221; setting climate change in the context of war and trade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through understanding and imagination he creates space for hope, a prerequisite for change,&#8221; said the prize committee.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Kolkata, Ghosh has won several literary prizes, including \u00a0the 2018 Jnanpith Award, India&#8217;s top award.<\/p>\n<p>sh-ric\/jhe\/giv<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/f63f895f25b4fabd5ea08a49ce5fb24d.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Indian author Amitav Ghosh writes about the impact of climate change on the subcontinent<\/p>\n<p>-LEON NEAL<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed Indian author Amitav Ghosh has won the coveted Dutch Erasmus Prize for his writings&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}