Mar.10,2011
A few days ago, Amitav Ghosh, contemporary celebrated writer in India, visited our school with his wife, Deborah Baker, and delivered a speech at Professor Guo Guoliang’s invitation. Mr. Ghosh gave an excellent speech which referred to the realms of literature and society, receiving many pleasant accolades from students and teachers of SIS. He laid special attention to the experience of writing his latest work--<Sea of Poppies> (the first book of a trilogy) which tells a magnificent story of a ship named Ibis coming across the Indian Ocean to Guangdong, China during the Opium War. Mr. Ghosh is an expert in telling stories. He has created many works which are very thrilling and appealing, for example, <The Glass Palace> and <The Shadow Lines>. Professor Guo has translated Mr. Ghosh’s works into Chinese which will be published by The People’s Literature Publishing House before the end of this year.
Institute of English Literature
(Translated by YANG Liu)
