Amitav Ghosh is a novelist and essayist whose many books include the acclaimed Ibis Trilogy (Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire), Gun Island, Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban,  The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, and The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, the latter two also published by the University of Chicago Press. He is the 2025 recipient of the Pak Kyongni Prize, often referred to as Korea’s Nobel Prize in Literature.