Siddhartha Deb (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
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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
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History
The ''London Review of ...
'', and ''
The Times Literary Supplement''. He currently teaches creative writing at
The New School in New York.
Awards and honors
*2012
PEN/Open Book
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, ''The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India''
*2012
Orwell Prize (shortlist), ''The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India''
Bibliography
Fiction
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* published by Picador in the UK as
* a collaborative project published as a limited edition book with photographer
Mitch Epstein
Non-fiction
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Articles
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See also
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Indian literature
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The earliest works of Indian literature were o ...
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Indian English literature
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Literature from North East India
References
External links
In Conversation: Winners and Losers in the “New India”: Siddhartha Deb with Scott Sherman ''The Brooklyn Rail''
"On Change in India"''Guernica: Magazine of Art and Politics'' (September 1, 2011)
Siddhartha Deb articles''New Republic''
1970 births
Living people
Novelists from Meghalaya
University of Calcutta alumni
Columbia University alumni
The New School faculty
Indian male writers
20th-century Indian journalists
Journalists from Meghalaya
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