“And melancholy, I came out on the balcony—
came out to change my thoughts at least by looking at
a little of the city that I loved.”
– View from the balcony of Cavafy’s apartment on the Rue Lepsius (now Rue Cavafy), Alexandria.
The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation has awarded the Erasmus Prize 2024 to the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh. He receives the prize for his passionate contribution to the theme ‘imagining the unthinkable’, in which an unprecedented global crisis takes shape.