William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple was born in Scotland and brought up on the shores of the Firth of Forth. He wrote the highly acclaimed bestseller In Xanadu when he was twenty-two. The book 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.
In 1989 Dalrymple moved to Delhi where he lived for four years researching his second book, City of Djinns, which won the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. His third book, From the Holy Mountain was short-listed for the Duff Cooper Award and received the Scottish Arts Council Autumn Book Award for 1997. The Age of Kali, a collection of his pieces about the Indian sub-continent, was published in 1998.
White Mughals was published by HarperCollins in 2002, and won the 2003 Wolfson History Prize, and the Scottish Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the PEN History Award.
The Last Mughal, a searing account of the Siege of Delhi and the fall of the Mughal Empire, was published by Bloomsbury in 2006.
William 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 Geographical Society for his ‘outstanding contribution to travel literature’. He wrote and presented the television series Stones of the Raj and Indian Journeys, which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA in 2002. He is married to the artist Olivia Fraser, and they have three children. They divide their time between London and Delhi.
Titles
Nine Lives (Bloomsbury 2009)
The Last Mughal (Bloomsbury, 2006)
White Mughals (Harper Collins, 2002)
Begums, Thugs, And White Mughals – The Journals of Fanny Parkes (editor) (Eland Books, 2002)
The Age of Kali (HarperCollins, 1998)
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium (HarperCollins, 1997)
City of Djinns (HarperCollins, 1993)
In Xanadu (HarperCollins, 1989)
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