Rana Dasgupta
Rana Dasgupta (born November 5, 1971 in Canterbury , England) is a British-Indian writer (novels, essays).
Life
The son of an Indian father and an English mother grew up in Cambridge , England. He studied at Balliol College in Oxford , at the Darius Milhaud Conservatory in Aix-en-Provence , and as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison .
He has had his main residence there since he moved to Delhi , India for love in 2001 . The British daily The Daily Telegraph named him one of the best novelists under 40 in Great Britain in 2010 . The French daily Le Monde named him one of the 70 people who will have a major impact on the world of tomorrow .
Dasgupta's first novel, The Gifted Night (Blessing Verlag, 2006), is an examination of the lines of force and experiences of globalization . It has been described as the modern version of the Canterbury Tales . Tokyo Canceled was shortlisted for the 2005 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize .
His second novel, Solo (Blessing Verlag 2009), is an epic tale of the 20th and 21st centuries from the fictional retrospective of a 100-year-old Bulgarian man. Solo has been translated into around twenty languages.
Dasgupta was awarded the prestigious Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2010 for the novel Solo . In the same year he was a guest at the Berlin International Literature Festival .
His third book Delhi. Im Rausch des Geldes (Suhrkamp Insel, 2014) is an essayistic non-fiction book about his adopted home Delhi as well as the mentalities and tendencies of the upper class there.
Dasgupta occasionally lectures at Brown University ; in spring 2014 he became a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer and Writer-in-Residence in the Modern Culture and Media department . In October 2012, Dasgupta was a Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow visiting professor in the humanities at Princeton University .
He should not be confused with the Indian cameraman of the same name.
Works
- Novels
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Tokyo canceled . London: Fourth Estate / HarperCollins, 2005. New York City: Black Cat / Grove Atlantic, 2005, ISBN 0-8021-7009-9
- The given night . Roman, Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich 2006. 476 pp. ISBN 978-3-896-67242-1
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Solo (London: HarperCollins, 2009. New York City: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009)
- Solo, novel . Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich 2010. 464 pp. ISBN 978-3-896-67243-8
- Non-fiction
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Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi (2014)
- Delhi. In the intoxication of money . Suhrkamp Insel 2014. ISBN 978-3-518-42457-5
- Essays
- "Maximum Cities" ( New Statesman , March 27, 2006)
- "Capital Gains" ( Granta Magazin 107, summer 2009)
- Real-time suicide ( Lettre International , Issue 119, Winter 2017, pp. 58–66)
- The demise of the nation state ( The Guardian April 5, 2018)
Awards
- 2010: Commonwealth Writers' Prize - Best Book Winner for Solo .
Web links
- Web presence of the writer
- Short biography and reviews of works by Rana Dasgupta at perlentaucher.de
- Interview with Dasgupta in the Swiss WOZ on October 30, 2014
supporting documents
- ↑ Lorna Bradbury: Are these Britain's 20 best novelists under 40? , The Telegraph, June 18, 2010, accessed January 8, 2015
- ↑ Le Monde de demain, parlons-en aujourd'hui , Le Monde from June 12, 2014, accessed January 8, 2015 (French)
- ↑ Sarah Crown: Narrative Planes , The Guardian March 29, 2005, accessed January 8, 2015
- ↑ Passed By: Dreams and responsibilities in Rana Dasgupta's “Solo,” James Wood review in The New Yorker on March 21, 2011, accessed January 8, 2015
- ↑ Rana Dasgupta's' risky 'book takes writers' prize , BBC News of April 12, 2010, accessed January 8, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Biographical information on Rana Dasgupta, guest of the ilb 2010
- ↑ Capital review - Rana Dasgupta's perceptive exploration of modern globalization , Review by Capital in The Guardian of March 23, 2014, accessed January 8, 2015
- ^ "Rana Dasgupta," Writers Online, Brown University
- ↑ Rana Dasgupta in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ New Statesman Essay by Rana Dasgupta on the Rise of Third World Cities
- ↑ Dasgupta's Granta Essay on Delhi's New Realms ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The demise of the nation state , accessed November 20, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dasgupta, Rana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-Indian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th November 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Canterbury , UK |