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ix Chronological Bioprofile 1956: Born in Calcutta on 11 July; father: Shailendra Chandra Ghosh, with the Indian army, diplomat; mother: Ansali Ghosh. Accompanies parents to East Pakistan, Iran, and Srilanka in his childhood. 1969–1973: Completes his Senior Cambridge at Doon School, Dehra Dun, India. 1974–1976: Studies for a bachelor’s degree in history and graduates from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University. 1978: Obtains a master’s in sociology from Delhi University. 1979: Attends St. Edmund Hall, Oxford to pursue postgraduate work, and in 1979 obtains a diploma in social anthropology. 1982: Awarded doctorate of philosophy for his thesis on “Kinship in Relation to the Economic and Social Organization of an Egyptian Village Community.” During this period he acquires a diploma in Arabic at Institut Bourguiba des Langues Vivantes Tunis in Tunisia. He later travels to Egypt to conduct fieldwork. This period is sketched later in his creative nonfiction, In an Antique Land. 1982–1983: Appointed Visiting Fellow, Centre for Developmental Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala (India). 1983–1987: Appointed Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Delhi University. 1986: The Circle of Reason is published. Also, the essay “The Imam and the Indian,” Granta 20 (Cambridge). 1987: Appointed Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Delhi University. Awarded the New York Times Notable Book for The Circle of Reason. x CHRONOLOGICAL BIOPROFILE 1988: Appointed Visiting Professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, departments of Literature and Anthropology; The Shadow Lines published ; revisits Egypt. 1989: Appointed Visiting Professor, South Asia Centre, Columbia University , spring semester and Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, fall semester. 1990: Awarded Prix Medicis étrangère in Paris for The Circle of Reason; awarded the Ananda Puraskar, Calcutta, for The Shadow Lines. Awarded the annual prize of the Sahitya Akademi (Indian Academy of Literature) for The Shadow Lines. 1991: Invited guest of the Minister of Culture, International Book Festival, Fureur de Lire, Paris, France, September; “The Cairo Geniza and the Indian Ocean in the Middle Ages,” Stanford University, May, invited speaker; readings from the manuscript of In an Antique Land, University of California, Santa Cruz, May. 1992: Published In an Antique Land, which was the subject of forty-minute TV documentary by BBC III that year. 1993: In an Antique Land wins New York Times Notable Book of the Year. 1994: Appointed Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, for three years. 1995: His essay “The Ghost of Mrs. Gandhi” awarded the Best American Essay. Begins reporting for The New Yorker; invited guest, Sydney Writers ’ Festival and Carnival, Sydney, Australia, January; invited inaugural speaker, Gandhi exhibition, Bose-Pacia Gallery, New York; invited guest speaker, South Asian Journalists Association, New York, October; invited speaker: “‘The Angel of Chartres is a Cambodian’: Rodin, Revolution and Cambodian Dance,” Department of Art History, Lectures in the History of Art and Visual Culture series, Columbia University, November. 1996: The Calcutta Chromosome is published. It is awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction of the year. 1997: Essay “India’s Untold War of Independence,” published in The New Yorker, June 17; translation in Bengali: Ananda Bazaar Patrika, 5 installments , August–September; translation in German: Lettre 38, no. 3. 1998: Published Dancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma; published “Calcutta ’s Global Ambassador,” New York Times (Op-Ed), March 14; published “The March of the Novel through History: The Testimony of My Grandfather’s Bookcase,” Kunapipi: A Journal of Post-Colonial Writing. [54.224.52.210] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 02:31 GMT) Chronological Bioprofile xi 1999: “The March of the Novel” wins the Pushcart Prize; appointed Distinguished Professor for four years, Department of Comparative Literature , Queen’s College, City University of New York; Countdown is published; it is in the final shortlist for the American Society of Magazine Editors Award for Reporting. 2000: The Glass Palace is published. Ghosh declines the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. 2001: The Glass Palace wins the Grand Prize for Fiction at the Frankfurt eBook Awards; New York Times Notable Book of 2001; Los Angeles Times Notable Book of 2001; Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of 2001; The Glass Palace featured on German TV, BBC East Asia, KVON Radio (L.A.), CNN International, WNYC (Leonard Lopate). 2002: The volume of essays The Imam and the Indian: Prose Pieces is published ; The Glass Palace, paperback release, readings: Milwaukee, Madison , Seattle, San Francisco, New York, February to March. 2003: Published essays “The Anglophone Empire” and “The Man behind the Mosque.” 2004: The Hungry Tide is published; appointed Visiting Professor, Department of English, Harvard...