Rana Dasgupta 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. In 2014, Le Monde named him one of 70 people who are making the world of tomorrow. Among the prizes won by Dasgupta's works are the Commonwealth Prize and the Ryszard Kapuściński Award.
Dasgupta at home in Delhi, April 2010
Ryszard Kapuściński Award
The Ryszard Kapuściński Award is a major annual Polish international literary prize, the most important distinction in the genre of literary reportage.
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