Author Amitava Kumar will be in conversation with journalist Aditya Mani Jha and they'll be focusing this discussion on Amitava's book THE GREEN BOOK.
Amitava Kumar is the author of several works of nonfiction and four novels.
His novel IMMIGRANT, MONTANA was on the best of the year lists at The New Yorker, The New York Times, and President Obama’s list of favorite books of 2018. His last novel A TIME OUTSIDE THIS TIME was described by the New Yorker magazine as “a shimmering assault on the Zeitgeist.” His nonfiction books include THE BLUE BOOK: A WRITER'S JOURNAL, EVERY DAY I WRITE THE BOOK, A MATTER OF RATS, LUNCH WITH A BIGOT, A FOREIGNER CARRING IN THE CROOK OF HIS ARM A TINY BOMB, and HUSBAND OF A FANATIC. The author's work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, Harper’s, Guernica, The Nation and several other publications., a collection of drawings and diary entries about the pandemic, was recently published by HarperCollins India. Amitava has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and residencies from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Lannan Foundation. He is currently a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library.
Aditya Mani Jha is a writer and journalist, currently living in Delhi and working on his first book.