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Books by Rana Dasgupta
Rana Dasgupta is an award-winning novelist and essayist, and the literary director of the JCB Prize for Literature. He is the author of Solo, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and Tokyo Cancelled, which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. His latest book, Capital: The Eruption of Delhi, won the 2017 Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage. He lives in Delhi, India.
Interviews with Rana Dasgupta
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Ib's Endless Search for Satisfaction
by Roshan Ali -
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My Father's Garden
by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar -
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Trial by Silence
by Perumal Murugan, translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan -
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A Lonely Harvest
by Perumal Murugan, translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan -
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The Far Field: A Novel
by Madhuri Vijay -
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There's Gunpowder in the Air
by Manoranjan Byapari, translated by Arunava Sinha
The Best Indian Novels of 2019, recommended by Rana Dasgupta
The Best Indian Novels of 2019, recommended by Rana Dasgupta
India has a thriving literary community working in 22 official languages plus English, says Rana Dasgupta, the literary director of the JCB Prize: a major award for the best new novel by an Indian author. Here, he talks us through their 2019 shortlist.
