BRICUP calls on Amitav Ghosh – do not accepted tainted prize, c.15.04.10
Amitav Ghosh is being offered the Israeli Dan David prize jointly with Margaret Atwood. BRICUP has issued an open letter
to him calling on him to refuse the prize. We said:
“It’s surprising to have to raise Israeli colonialism with
a writer whose entire oeuvre seems to us an attempt to imagine how human
beings survived the depredations of colonialism. Gosh, even
the Dan David judges like the way you evoke ‘the violent dislocations
of people and regimes during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’.”