Dr Amitav Ghosh receives an honorary degree at the University of York скачать в хорошем качестве

Dr Amitav Ghosh receives an honorary degree at the University of York

#UoYGraduation #UniversityOfYork Acclaimed author Dr Amitav Ghosh receives an honorary degree from the University of York. Dr Ghosh has penned nine novels, four non-fiction books, and two essay collections. His works have garnered numerous prizes and are translated into over thirty languages. Ghosh, who grew up in India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford. He holds six honorary doctorates and has served on film festival juries. In 2018, he became the first English-language writer to receive India’s highest literary honor, the Jnanpith Award. He was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 2024 and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, writer Deborah Baker. Find out more about graduation at York by visiting: york.ac.uk/graduation 00:00 Professor Claire Chambers presents the Honorary Graduand 06:35 Deputy Vice-Chancellor Ken Badcock confers the degree of the University honoris causa 07:03 Dr Amitav Ghosh gives his acceptance speech