William Dalrymple
William
Dalrymple: William Dalrymple is a bestselling author of In Xanadu, City of
Djinns, From the Holy Mountain, White Mughals, The Last Mughal, Nine Lives,
and most recently, Return of a King: An Indian Army in Afghanistan. He has
won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer
of the Year Award, the French Prix d’Astrolabe, the Wolfson Prize for
History, the Scottish Book of the Year Award, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize,
the Asia House Award for Asian Literature, the Vodafone/Crossword Award for
nonfiction, and has, prior to the shortlisting of Return of a King, been long
listed three times for the Samuel Johnson Prize. The Italian edition of
Return of a King won the 2015 Hemingway Prize and the prestigious Kapuściński
Prize for Literary Reportage. In September 2016, a Hindustani translation of
The Last Mughal was released as Aakhri Mughal, and in December Juggernaut
published his new book, Kohinoor, co-written with Anita Anand. Dalrymple is
one of the founders and a co-director of the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival.
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