Siddhartha Deb

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Born 1970
Meghalaya, India
Occupation Writer, professor and journalist
Language English
Nationality Indian
Ethnicity Bengali
Alma mater Columbia University
Notable works The Beautiful and the Damned
Notable awards PEN/Open Book
2012 The Beautiful and the Damned

Siddhartha Deb (Bengali: সিদ্ধাৰ্থ দেব) (born 1970) is an Indian author who was born in Meghalaya and grew up in Shillong in northeastern India. He was educated in India and at Columbia University,[1] US. Deb began his career in journalism as a sports journalist in Calcutta in 1994 before moving to Delhi to continue regular journalism until 1998.[2] His first novel, The Point of Return, is semi-autobiographical in nature and is set in a fictional hill-station that closely resembles Shillong in India's Northeast. His second novel, Surface, also set in Northeast India, is about a disillusioned Sikh journalist. His first non-fiction book, The Beautiful And the Damned: A Portrait of the New India was published in June 2011 by Viking Penguin. He has also contributed to The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Nation, New Statesman, Harper's, the London Review of Books, and The Times Literary Supplement. He currently teaches creative writing at The New School in New York.[2][3]

Awards and honors

  • 2012 PEN/Open Book, The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India
  • 2012 Orwell Prize (shortlist), The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India

Bibliography

Fiction

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Non-fiction

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Articles

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See also

References

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