Who became the first writer in the English language to receive the Jnanpith Award?

Explanation

Amitav Ghosh is the first Indian writer in the English language to receive the Jnanpith Award, which he won in 2018. He was earlier awarded the “Padma Shri” in 2007 and was shortlisted for the “Man Booker Asian Prize” in 2012 for “River of Smoke”. His major works include “The Flood of Fire”, “The Great Derangement”, “Gun Island”, “River of Smoke”, “The Glass Palace”, and “The Shadow Lines”. Arundhati Roy is best known for her novel “The God of Small Things”, which won the “Man Booker Prize for Fiction” in 1997.