Indian writer Amitav Ghosh was awarded with the 'Erasmus Prize 2024' for his writing on the climate change crisis.

Awards

Indian writer Amitav Ghosh was awarded with the 'Erasmus Prize 2024' for his writing on the climate change crisis. He has been honored with the award by the Premium Erasmianum Foundation of the Netherlands. He has received this award for his passionate contribution to highlighting the global crisis of climate change through writing and on the theme of 'imagining the unimaginable'. In 2019, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Maastricht University.


      Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands founded the Premium Erasmianum in 1958.

      This award established the Premium Erasmianum, a cultural institution active in the fields of humanities, social sciences and arts.

     

 

     


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