Rana Dasgupta author biography, plus links to books by Rana Dasgupta.

Rana Dasgupta

Rana Dasgupta was born in the UK in 1971 and grew up in Cambridge. As an adult he lived in France, Malaysia and the US before moving to Delhi in 2000.

His first book, Tokyo Cancelled, was published in 2005. Narrated by travelers stuck for a night in an airport, it is a cycle of folktales about our contemporary world of globalization, corporations, film stars and illegal immigrants. It was short-listed for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Vodafone Crossword Award. Solo, his first book published in the USA, came out in the UK in 2009 and was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

This biography was last updated on 02/01/2011.

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