Rana Dasgupta, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Rana Dasgupta

British writer

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1971

Place of Birth: Canterbury, England, United Kingdom

Profession: writer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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Rana Dasgupta (born 5 November 1971 in Canterbury, England) is a British Indian novelist and essayist.
He grew up in Cambridge, England, and studied at Balliol College, Oxford, the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence, and, as a Fulbright Scholar, the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
In 2010 The Daily Telegraph called him one of Britain's best novelists under 40.
In 2014 Le Monde named him one of 70 people who are making the world of tomorrow.
Among the prizes won by Dasgupta's works are the Commonwealth Prize and the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award. Dasgupta is the Literary Director of the JCB Prize for Literature.