Rana Dasgupta is the author of the short story collection Tokyo Cancelled, the novel Solo - which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2010 for Best Book - and After Nations. Capital, his first work of non-fiction, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Ondaatje Prize in 2015, and won both the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award and the Émile Guimet Prize in 2017. He was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize in 2025.

Important . . . His lyrical encounters with a wide range of modern Delhiites reveal a novelist's ear and are beautifully sketched

Rana Dasgupta is the author of the short story collection Tokyo Cancelled, the novel Solo - which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2010 for Best Book - and After Nations. Capital, his first work of non-fiction, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Ondaatje Prize in 2015, and won both the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award and the Émile Guimet Prize in 2017. He was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize in 2025.

Important . . . His lyrical encounters with a wide range of modern Delhiites reveal a novelist's ear and are beautifully sketched