Amitav Ghosh is the author of eighteen books of fiction and non-fiction, including The Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace, and The Ibis Trilogy, as well as a new series of environmental works, including The Great Derangement and The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. His narrative fiction explores personal and national identity, and his essays address topics from colonialism to climate change. Ghosh has received two lifetime achievement awards, four honorary doctorates, and is the winner of the Jnanpith award, India’s highest literary honor. In the United States, Ghosh’s essays have appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times. Foreign Policy has named him one of the most important global thinkers of the early twenty-first century.