1. William Dalrymple is one of the co-founders and co-directors of the world's largest writers' festival, the annual Jaipur Literature Festival.
22 Facts About William Dalrymple
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William Dalrymple has been five times longlisted and once shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction and was a finalist for the Cundill History Prize.
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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 William Dalrymple wrote and presented, won him the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA in 2002.
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In 2012, Dalrymple was appointed a Whitney J Oates Visiting Fellow in the Humanities by Princeton University.
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William Dalrymple served as a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford in 2024.
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William Dalrymple was named in the 2020 Prospect list of the top 50 thinkers for the COVID-19 era.
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William Dalrymple was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to literature and the arts.
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William Dalrymple was educated at Ampleforth College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was first a history exhibitioner and then a senior history scholar.
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William Dalrymple describes his childhood as being idyllic and old-fashioned, almost Edwardian.
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William Dalrymple first went to Delhi on 26 January 1984, and has lived in India on and off since 1989 and spends most of the year at his Mehrauli farmhouse in the outskirts of Delhi, but summers in London and Edinburgh.
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William Dalrymple's wife, Olivia, is an artist and comes from a family with long-standing connections to India.
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William Dalrymple's wife is related to Scottish actress Rose Leslie.
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One of his sons, Sam William Dalrymple, is a historian and a cofounder of a peace initiative called Project Dastaan.
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William Dalrymple's interests include the history and art of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Middle East, Hinduism, Buddhism, the Jains and early Eastern Christianity.
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William Dalrymple published a book of essays about current affairs in the Indian subcontinent, and four award-winning histories of the interaction between the East India Company and the peoples of India and Afghanistan between the eighteenth and mid-nineteenth century, his "Company Quartet".
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William Dalrymple's books have been translated into more than 40 languages.
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William Dalrymple is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, the New Statesman and The New Yorker.
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William Dalrymple was the Indian Subcontinent correspondent of the New Statesman from 2004 to 2014.
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William Dalrymple attended the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature in 2008, giving readings and taking workshops in Jerusalem, Ramallah and Bethlehem.
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William Dalrymple has written and presented the six-part television series Stones of the Raj, the three-part Indian Journeys and Sufi Soul.
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William Dalrymple has done a six-part history series The Long Search for Radio 4.
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William Dalrymple was the historical consultant to ITV's 2019 series Beecham House.