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Language
  
English

Name
  
Siddhartha Deb

Alma mater
  

Ethnicity
  
Bengali

Nationality
  
Indian

Role
  
Author

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Occupation
  
Writer, professor and journalist

Notable works
  
The Beautiful and the Damned

Education
  
University of Calcutta, Columbia University

Books
  
The Beautiful and the D, The Point of Return, An Outline of the Republic, Surface

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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, 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. 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.

Contents

Siddhartha deb the distinguished writers series


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
  • References

    Siddhartha Deb Wikipedia


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