He wrote and presented the British television series Stones of the Raj and Indian Journeys, which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA in 2002. William Dalrymple is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society, and in 2002 was awarded the Mungo Park Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for his ‘outstanding contribution to travel literature’. In 1989, Dalrymple moved to Delhi where he lived for six years researching his second book, City of Djinns, which won the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. The book won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award (1990) and a Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award it was also shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. He wrote the highly acclaimed bestseller In Xanadu when he was twenty-two.
He was educated at Ampleforth and Trinity College, Cambridge where he was first History Exhibitioner then Senior History Scholar. William Dalrymple was born in Scotland and brought up on the shores of the Firth of Forth. If you know how to look, even the abandoned ruins of the past are alive.Travel, Essays & Travelogues, History, Non-Fiction What sustains it, apart from his erudite knowledge, is Dalrymple’s sense of historical adventure. Pigeon fanciers, Sufi mystics, Muslim healers, musicians, calligraphers, philosophers and a guild of eunuchs all provide Dalrymple with entertaining insights… It is fine, entertaining, well written stuff, thoroughly researched but with none of the stern academic tone that so many historical profiles adopt. Format: paperback Publication Date: 20 September 1993 Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 978-0006375951 Buy Now Reviews and Quotes Jan Morris, Independent “Dalrymple has pulled it off again … in it we see the first fine rapture of In Xanadu deepening into a profounder dedication.” Trevor Fishlock, Sunday Telegraph “There are beautifully chiselled descriptions of a grand capital… but much of the book’s strength lies in Dalrymple’s skill in peeling the historical onion and showing how the New Delhi resonates with the old… A splendid tapestry.” Nicholas Wordsworth, Financial Times “A sympathetic and engaging portrait of this age old city… Pursuing his research through the narrow alleys, mosques, abandoned ruins and tombs of Delhi, Dalrymple encounters a range of folk who continues to give it its special character.
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