Amitav Ghosh is a novelist and essayist whose many books include the acclaimed Ibis Trilogy as well as 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. He is the 2025 recipient of the Pak Kyongni Prize, often referred to as Korea’s Nobel Prize in Literature.