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Rana Dasgupta

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Rana Dasgupta is a British novelist and essayist. Born in Canterbury in 1971, he studied at Balliol College, Oxford and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2001, he moved to New Delhi to write. Tokyo Cancelled, a collection of contemporary folktales, appeared in 2005. A novel, Solo (2009), won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. In 2014 he published Capital, a non-fiction account of the changes engulfing his adopted city as a result of globalization. Capital won the Ryszard Kapuściński Award and the Prix Émile Guimet. Dasgupta’s essays and articles have appeared in Harper’s, Granta, New Statesman, Prospect, The Paris Review, the Guardian and The New York Times. In 2018, he published a manifesto (“The Demise of the Nation-State”, the Guardian, 5 April 2018) for a new conception of human political organization. His next book, After Nations (2024), describes four crises of the contemporary nation-state (“God”, “Money”, “Law”, “Nature”) and presents a path to a fairer and more peaceful global future.