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UChicago Press hails Korean literature prize for Amitav Ghosh
The University of Chicago's Chicago Humanities Festival is hosting Amitav Ghosh for an event in Fall 2025.
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Staff Reporter - Thu, 25, Sep 2025
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Amitav Ghosh / Facebook/University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press leads the world’s publishers in congratulating Indian author Amitav Ghosh who was recently awarded the 2025 Park Kyongni Prize, for “expanding the frontiers of postcolonial and ecological literature and for giving voice to subaltern subjects, including nature itself”.
The Press said in a statement posted on social media: “Many congratulations to Amitav Ghosh, just named the 2025 recipient of the Pak Kyongni Prize, often referred to as Korea’s Nobel Prize in Literature. The award is presented to the ‘truest writer of our time who has upheld the essential values of literature and made a profound impact on world literary history’."
Incidentally, the University of Chicago Press had published his non-fiction ‘The Great Derangement’ in 2016.
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