William Dalrymple (1) (1965–)
Auteur van City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
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Over de Auteur
William Dalrymple wrote the highly acclaimed British best-seller In Xanadu when he was twenty-two. It won the 1990 Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award and a Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award; it was also shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize. His second book, City of Djinns, toon meer won the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. From the Holy Mountain was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Autumn Book Award for 1997; it was also shortlisted for the 1998 Thomas Cook Award, the John Lewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize, and the Duff Cooper Prize. A collection of his essays on India, The Age of Kali, was published in 1998. Dalrymple is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society and in 2002 was awarded the Mungo Park Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographic Society for his "outstanding contribution to travel literature." He is married to the artist Olivia Fraser, and they have three children. They now divide their time between London and Delhi toon minder
Fotografie: Ragu Rai/Magnum
Werken van William Dalrymple
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (2019) 1,331 exemplaren, 16 besprekingen
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India (2002) 1,317 exemplaren, 16 besprekingen
Negen Levens : Een zoektocht naar het heilige in het moderne India (2009) 807 exemplaren, 26 besprekingen
The New Cambridge History of India: A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761 (1993) — Medewerker — 44 exemplaren
Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company (2019) — Redacteur; Medewerker — 40 exemplaren
The Company Quartet: White Mughals, Return of a King, The Last Mughal and The Anarchy (2021) 9 exemplaren
Between Two Massacr s : 1857-1919 1 exemplaar
The Empire Implodes 1 exemplaar
The Jallianwallah Bagh 1 exemplaar
Company Rule in India 1 exemplaar
Mutiny, Uprising and Rebellion 1 exemplaar
'The history wars of India' in AFR, 8 April 2005 [review of various bks on Indian history & Hindu fundos] 1 exemplaar
East 1 exemplaar
Our far-flung correspondents: 'Homer in India: the oral epics of Rajasthan' (New Yorker, 20/11/2006) 1 exemplaar
'Last of the Mughals' in AFR, 3 Nov 2006 1 exemplaar
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Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal (1932) — Introductie, sommige edities — 439 exemplaren, 9 besprekingen
The Condé Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places (2007) — Medewerker — 259 exemplaren, 5 besprekingen
Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (2000) — Medewerker — 236 exemplaren, 6 besprekingen
Begums, Thugs, and White Mughals: The Journals of Fanny Parkes (2002) — Redacteur; Introductie — 104 exemplaren, 4 besprekingen
Oxtravels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers (2011) — Medewerker — 57 exemplaren, 3 besprekingen
World Monuments: 50 Irreplaceable Sites to Discover, Explore, and Champion (2015) — Contributor. — 18 exemplaren
Pigment, Form and Light : the Arts of India, 1550-1900. 2nd October-14th November 2015 (2015) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
Tipu, the Daniells and Co.: Company School Painting in India — Introductie — 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Dalrymple, William
- Officiële naam
- Hamilton-Dalrymple, William Benedict
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Dalrymple, William
- Geboortedatum
- 1965-03-20
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Scotland, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- Firth on Forth, Scotland, UK
London, England, UK
Delhi, India
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK - Opleiding
- University of Cambridge (Trinity College)
Ampleforth College - Beroepen
- journalist
historian
travel writer
art historian
curator - Relaties
- Fraser, Olivia (wife)
Dalrymple, Sam (son) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Commander, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (2023)
Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society
Corresponding Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh (2018)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1995)
Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society
Fellow, Royal Geographical Society (toon alle 23)
Fellow, Royal Historical Society (2022)
Royal Geographical Society Mungo Park Medal (2002)
Sir Percy Sykes Memorial Medal (2005)
Wolfson Prize for History (2001)
President's Medal, British Academy (2018)
Duff Cooper Memorial Prize (2007)
Arthur Ross Book Award (Bronze Medal, 2020)
Thomas Cook Travel Book Award (1994)
Grierson Award (2002)
Sandford St Martin Prize (2002)
Scottish Book of the Year (2003)
Minerva Medal (2022)
Hemingway Prize (2015)
Ryszard Kapuściński Award (2015)
French Prix d'Astrolabe (2005)
Honorary Doctorate, University of St Andrews (2006)
Honorary Doctorate, University of Aberdeen (2008)
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BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE FEBRUARY - CHRISTIE & DALRYMPLE in 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (maart 2016)
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