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William Dalrymple | |
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 Dalrymple in 2014 | |
| Born | 20 March 1965 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom[1] |
| Occupation | Historian, writer & broadcaster |
| Education | Trinity College, Cambridge (BA) |
| Period | 1989–present |
| Subject | The East India Company in 18th century South Asia and Afghanistan, Eastern Christianity and the Muslim world; Hindu and Buddhist art; late Mughal and Company school painting |
| Spouse | Olivia Fraser |
| Children | 3 |
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William Benedict Hamilton-Dalrymple CBE FRAS FRSL FRGS FRSE FRHistS (born 20 March 1965) is an India-based Scottish historian and art historian, as well as a curator, broadcaster and critic.[2] He is also one of the co-founders and co-directors of the world's largest writers' festival, the annual Jaipur Literature Festival.[3][4][5]
Dalrymple's books have won numerous awards and prizes, including the Wolfson Prize for History, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Hemingway, the Kapuściński, the Arthur Ross Medal of the US Council on Foreign Relations, the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. He has been five times longlisted and once shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction and was a Finalist for the Cundill Prize for History. The BBC television documentary on his pilgrimage to the source of the river Ganges, "Shiva's Matted Locks", one of three episodes of his Indian Journeys series, which Dalrymple wrote and presented, won him the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA in 2002.[6]
In 2012, Dalrymple was appointed a Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow in the Humanities by Princeton University.[7] In 2015, he was appointed the OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer at Brown University.[8] In 2018, he was awarded the President's Medal of the British Academy, the academy's highest honour in its suite of prizes and medals awarded for "outstanding service to the cause of the humanities and social sciences."[9] He is also since 2021 an Honorary Fellow of the Bodleian Library. He served as a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford for an academic term in 2024.[10]
He was named in the 2020 Prospect list of the top 50 thinkers for the COVID-19 era.[11]
Dalrymple was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to literature and the arts.[12]
- ^ "William Dalrymple: We think everyone loves us in India, but it's a national myth of the first order". The Daily Telegraph. 29 August 2020.
- ^ "William Dalrymple". Penguin Books India. Archived from the original on 9 January 2007. Retrieved 30 June 2007.
- ^ Gopalakrishnan, Amulya (27 January 2009). "The Greatest Literary Show on Earth". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on 13 February 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2009.
- ^ "Looking for something special? Try treasure hunting in India". KiwiCollection.com. Archived from the original on 2 June 2008. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
- ^ "Writes of passage". Hindustan Times. 30 January 2008. Archived from the original on 20 October 2008. Retrieved 23 April 2008.
- ^ "William Dalrymple". Penguin Books India. Archived from the original on 9 January 2007. Retrieved 30 June 2007.
- ^ Short-Term Visiting Fellows Archived 28 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Princeton University retrieved 1 October 2012.
- ^ [1] Archived 26 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Brown University retrieved 28 April 2015.
- ^ "Award-winning journalists, prehistorians and world-leading economists honoured with prestigious British Academy prizes and medals". British Academy. 20 August 2018. Archived from the original on 2 July 2019. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 April 2024. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "The world's top 50 thinkers for the Covid-19 age" (PDF). Prospect. 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 September 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
- ^ "No. 64082". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 June 2023. p. B9.