Amitav Ghosh wins Israeli prize

Amitav Ghosh was named as one of the three winners of the international Dan David Prize, which annually awards three prizes of US$1 million each for outstanding achievement.

The Dan David Prize is named after international businessman and philanthropist Dan David and is headquartered at Tel Aviv University. The laureates, who donate 10% of their prize money towards 20 doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships, will be honoured at a ceremony onMay 9, 2010 at Tel Aviv University in the presence of the President of the State of Israel.

The citation for him read: "for his novels which offer a panoramic treatment of twentieth-century history from a postcolonial perspective and a transnational understanding of the self seen as the intersection of the many identities produced by the collision of languages and cultures".