William Dalrymple
Historian, writer and broadcaster
William Dalrymple is a Scottish historian and writer who has written widely about India. He also co-founded the Jaipur Literature Festival.
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British Born 1965 in Scotland, United Kingdom
About William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple is a Scottish historian, writer, art historian, curator and broadcaster, born in 1965. He moved to Delhi in 1989 and spent six years there researching City of Djinns. White Mughals, published in 2003, won the Wolfson History Prize. His other honors include the Duff Cooper Prize, the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and a BAFTA Grierson Award for his television series Indian Journeys. In 2023 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to literature and the arts. He helped found the Jaipur Literature Festival in India, and is one of its directors. Our catalog includes his books Nine Lives and The Anarchy.