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Rana Dasgupta | |
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 Dasgupta at home in Delhi, April 2010 | |
| Born | Rana Dasgupta 5 November 1971 Canterbury, England |
| Occupation | Novelist, essayist |
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Rana Dasgupta (born 5 November 1971 in Canterbury, England) is a British novelist and essayist. He grew up in Cambridge, England, and studied at Balliol College, Oxford, the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence, and, as a Fulbright Scholar, the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 2010 The Daily Telegraph called him one of Britain's best novelists under 40.[1] In 2014, Le Monde named him one of 70 people who are making the world of tomorrow.[2] Among the prizes won by Dasgupta's works are the Commonwealth Prize and the Ryszard Kapuściński Award.
Dasgupta is a former literary director of the JCB Prize for Literature.[3]
- ^ Bradbury, Lorna (18 June 2010). "Are these Britain's 20 best novelists under 40?". The Daily Telegraph.
- ^ "Le Monde de demain, parlons-en aujourd'hui" [The world of tomorrow, let's talk about it today]. Le Monde (in French). 12 June 2014.
- ^ Ghoshal, Somak (14 February 2020). "'I want to take the JCB Prize to the smaller towns and cities': Mita Kapur". Mint Lounge. Retrieved 30 November 2020.