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{{short description|Scottish historian and writer}}
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| alma_mater = [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]
| birth_place = Scotland
| occupation = Historian, Art-Historian, Photographer
| nationality = Scottish
| period = 1989–present
| subject =  The East India Company in 18th Century South Asia & Afghanistan. Eastern Christianity & the Muslim World; Hindu & Buddhist art; Late Mughal and Company School painting.
| spouse = Olivia Fraser
| website = {{URL|http://www.williamdalrymple.uk.com}}
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'''William Dalrymple''' (born '''William Hamilton-Dalrymple''' on 20 March 1965) is a Scottish historian and art historian, as well as a curator, photographer, broadcaster and critic.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/AuthorLounge/AuthorDetail.asp?aid=2754
|title = William Dalrymple
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|publisher = Penguin Books India |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070109062249/http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/AuthorLounge/AuthorDetail.asp?aid=2754 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 9 January 2007}}</ref> He is also one of the co-founders and co-directors of the world's largest writers festival, the annual [[Jaipur Literature Festival]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-27/the-greatest-literary-show-on-earth|title =The Greatest Literary Show on Earth|access-date = 3 February 2009|newspaper =The Daily Beast|date =27 January 2009|last1 =Gopalakrishnan|first1 =Amulya}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.kiwicollection.com/around_world_detail/ITEM=242/|title = Looking for something special? Try treasure hunting in India|access-date = 22 April 2008|publisher = KiwiCollection.com|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080602040759/http://www.kiwicollection.com/around_world_detail/ITEM%3D242/|archive-date = 2 June 2008|df = dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url =http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=0640ff75-70ec-460d-8d06-a9bfc6d124aa
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|url-status =dead
|archive-date =20 October 2008
|title =Writes of passage|date = 30 January 2008|access-date =23 April 2008|publisher =Hindustan Times}}</ref>
His books have won numerous awards and prizes, including the Wolfson Prize for History, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Hemingway, the Kapuściński, the Arthur Ross Medal of the US Council on Foreign Relations, the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. He has been five times longlisted and once shortlisted for the [[Baillie Gifford Prize]] for non-fiction and was a Finalist for the Cundill Prize for History. The BBC television documentary on his pilgrimage to the source of the river [[Ganges]], 'Shiva's Matted Locks', one of three episodes of his ''Indian Journeys'' series, which Dalrymple wrote and presented, won him the [[Grierson Award]] for Best Documentary Series at [[BAFTA]] in 2002.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/AuthorLounge/AuthorDetail.asp?aid=2754
|title = William Dalrymple
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|publisher = Penguin Books India |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070109062249/http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/AuthorLounge/AuthorDetail.asp?aid=2754 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 9 January 2007}}</ref>
In 2018, he was awarded the [[President's Medal (British Academy)|President's Medal]] of the [[British Academy]], the Academy’s highest honour in its suite of prizes and medals.<ref name="britac.ac.uk">{{cite web |title=Award-winning journalists, prehistorians and world-leading economists honoured with prestigious British Academy prizes and medals |url=https://www.britac.ac.uk/news/journalists-prehistorians-economists-honoured-british-academy-prizes-medals |website=British Academy |access-date=5 September 2018 |date=20 August 2018}}</ref>
Dalrymple was the curator of ''Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi 1707–1857'', a major show of the late Mughal painting for the ''[[Asia Society]]'' in New York, which ran from February to May 2012.<ref name="AS1">[http://sites.asiasociety.org/princesandpainters/ Princes and Painters], Asia Society retrieved 4 October 2012.</ref> A catalogue of this exhibit co-edited by Dalrymple with Yuthika Sharma was published by Penguin in 2012 under the same name.<ref name="ZeeNews"/> More recently he curated the exhibition of [[Company style]] painting, ''Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company'', at the [[Wallace Collection]] in London.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/dec/03/forgotten-masters-review-the-natural-history-geniuses-robbed-by-the-british-empire|title=Forgotten Masters review – the natural history geniuses robbed by the British empire |website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |date=3 December 2019 }}</ref>
In 2012, Dalrymple was appointed a Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow in the Humanities by [[Princeton University]].<ref>[http://humanities.princeton.edu/fellows/short-term-visiting-fellows Short-Term Visiting Fellows], Princeton University ''retrieved 1 October 2012''.</ref> In 2015, he was appointed the OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer at [[Brown University]].<ref>[http://www.brown.edu/initiatives/india/opjindal/william-dalrymple], Brown University ''retrieved 28 April 2015''.</ref> He is also since 2021 an Honorary Fellow of the Bodleian Library at [[Oxford University]]. He was named in the 2020 [[Prospect (magazine)|''Prospect'']] list of the top 50 thinkers for the [[COVID-19 pandemic|COVID-19 era]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=2020|title=The world's top 50 thinkers for the Covid-19 age|url=https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/content/uploads/2020/09/PWTT20.pdf|access-date=2020-09-08|magazine=Prospect}}</ref>
==Personal life==
Dalrymple is the son of [[Sir Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple, 10th Baronet]], and Lady Anne-Louise Keppel, a daughter of the [[Walter Keppel, 9th Earl of Albemarle|9th Earl of Albemarle]]. He is a great nephew  of [[Virginia Woolf]].<ref>{{cite AV media | people=Cambridge Muslim College | date=May 15, 2003 | title=Return of a King
| medium=Lecture recording | location=Cambridge, UK | time = 1:22}}</ref> His brother, [[John Dalrymple (cricketer)|Jock]], was a [[first-class cricket]]er. He was educated at [[Ampleforth College]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], where he was first a history [[Exhibition (scholarship)|exhibitioner]] and then a senior history scholar.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.williamdalrymple.uk.com/biog |title=Biography – William Dalrymple}}</ref>
Dalrymple first went to [[Delhi]] on 26 January 1984,<ref>{{cite book|title=The Last Mughal|publisher=Penguin|isbn=978-0-143-10243-4|page=6|author=William Dalrymple|chapter=Introduction|year=2007}}</ref> and has lived in India on and off since 1989 and spends most of the year at his [[Mehrauli]] farmhouse in the outskirts of Delhi,<ref name="bookforum1">{{cite news |title=The Don of Dehli |author=Karan Mahajan |url=http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/017_05/7000 |newspaper=Bookforum.com|date=February–March 2011 |access-date=18 February 2011}}</ref> but summers in London and Edinburgh. His wife, Olivia, is an artist and comes from a family with long-standing connections to India. The couple have three children. Through his wife's side of the family, he is related to Scottish actress [[Rose Leslie]].<ref name="Atwood-GoT">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/mar/22/margaret-atwood-on-game-of-thrones-season-five?CMP=share_btn_tw|title=Margaret Atwood on Game of Thrones: 'Real people, every murderous one'|work=The Guardian|date=22 March 2015|access-date=30 March 2021|last=Atwood|first=Margaret}}</ref>
==Interests and influence==
[[File:William Dalrymple.jpg|thumb|200px|William Dalrymple (left) with [[Esther Freud]] (centre) and [[Hanan Ashrawi]] at [[PalFest]] 2008.]]
Dalrymple's interests include the history and art of [[India]], [[Pakistan]], [[Afghanistan]], the Middle East, [[Hinduism]], [[Buddhism]], the [[Jainism|Jains]] and early [[Eastern Christianity]]. Every one of his ten books have won literary prizes. His first three were travel books based on his journeys in the Middle East, India and Central Asia. His early influences included travel writers such as [[Robert Byron]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/william-dalrymple|title = William Dalrymple - Literature}}</ref> [[Eric Newby]], and [[Bruce Chatwin]].
Dalrymple published a book of essays about current affairs in the Indian subcontinent, and four award-winning histories of the  interaction between the East India Company and the peoples of India and Afghanistan between the eighteenth and mid-nineteenth century, his "Company Quartet". His books have been translated into more than 40 languages.
He is a regular contributor to ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'',<ref name="nybooks.com">{{cite web
|url = http://www.nybooks.com/authors/9809
|title = Book review by William Dalrymple
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|work = [[The New York Review of Books]]}}</ref> ''[[The Guardian]]'',<ref>{{cite news
|url = http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/william_dalrymple/index.html
|title = Articles by William Dalrymple
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|publisher = GuardianUnlimited
|location=London}}</ref> the ''[[New Statesman]]''<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/william_dalrymple
|title = Articles by William Dalrymple
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|work = The New York Review of Books}}</ref> and ''[[The New Yorker]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine
|url = https://www.newyorker.com/search/query?queryType=nonparsed&query=%22William+Dalrymple%22&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=Submit&bylquery=&month1=-1&day1=-1&year1=-1&month2=-1&day2=-1&year2=-1&page=&sort=
|title = Articles by William Dalrymple
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|magazine = The New Yorker}}</ref> He has also written many articles for [[Time (magazine)|''Time'']] magazine. He has been the Indian Subcontinent correspondent of the ''[[New Statesman]]'' since 2004.
He attended the inaugural [[Palestine Festival of Literature]] in 2008 – giving readings and taking workshops in [[Jerusalem]], [[Ramallah]] and [[Bethlehem]].<ref name="CAABU">{{cite news
|url =http://www.caabu.org/events/caabu/caabu-reception-evening-william-dalrymple
|title =Caabu Reception: An evening with William Dalrymple
|access-date =5 October 2012
|publisher =The Council for Arab-British Understanding}}</ref>
His 2009 book, ''Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India'', a study of some of the more esoteric forms of modern Indian, and especially Hindu, spirituality, was published by Bloomsbury, and like all his others, went to the number one slot on the Indian non-fiction best-seller list.<ref>{{cite news
|url =http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/bestsellers/William-s-new-book-tops-bestseller-list/Article1-467856.aspx
|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20110606111736/http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/bestsellers/William-s-new-book-tops-bestseller-list/Article1-467856.aspx
|url-status =dead
|archive-date =6 June 2011
|title =William's new book tops bestseller list
|date =22 October 2009
|access-date =28 October 2009
|publisher =Hindustan Times}}</ref> Since its publication he has been touring the UK, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Australia, Holland and the US with a band consisting of some of the people featured in his book including [[Sufis]], [[Fakirs]], [[Bauls]], Theveram hymn singers as well as a prison warder and part-time [[Theyyam]] dancer widely believed to incarnate the God [[Vishnu]].<ref>{{cite web
|url =http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/0acfc01e-a3e1-11de-9fed-00144feabdc0.html |title =On Tour with the Madmen
|date =18 September 2009 |publisher =Financial Times }}</ref>
''Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan'', a history of the [[First Anglo-Afghan War|First Afghan War 1839–42]], was published in India in December 2012,<ref name="ZeeNews">[http://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/bookworm/william-dalrymple-s-book-on-first-anglo-afghan-war-out-in-december_2501.htm William Dalrymple`s book on first Anglo-Afghan war out in December] Zee News</ref> in the UK in February 2013, and in the US in April 2013. Dalrymple's great-great-granduncle [[Colin Mackenzie (Indian Army officer)|Colin Mackenzie]] fought in the war and was briefly detained by the Afghans. Following the publication of the book Dalrymple was called to brief both the Afghan President [[Hamid Karzai]] and the [[White House]] on the lessons to be learned from Afghan history.{{fact?|date=June 2017}}
His most recent book, published in 2019, is ''[[The Anarchy (book)|The Anarchy]]'', a history of the Indian Subcontinent during the period from 1739 to 1803, which saw the collapse of the Mughal imperial system,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/east-india-company-sent-a-diplomat-to-jahangir-all-the-mughal-emperor-cared-about-was-beer/281255/|title=East India Company sent a diplomat to Jahangir & all the Mughal Emperor cared about was beer|date=24 August 2019 }}</ref> rise of the Maratha imperial confederacy, and the militarisation and rise of power of the [[East India Company]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/east-india-company-original-corporate-raiders|title=Anarchy EIC |website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |date=4 March 2015 }}</ref> It was long listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2019, and short listed for the Duke of Wellington medal for Military History, the Tata Book of the Year (Non-fiction) and the Historical Writers Association Book Award 2020. It was a Finalist for the Cundill Prize for History and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Bronze Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-10-21|title=US$75k Cundill History Prize 2020 finalists announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/10/21/158205/us75k-cundill-history-prize-2020-finalists-announced/|access-date=2020-11-05|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}</ref>
==TV and radio==
Dalrymple has written and presented the six-part television series ''Stones of the Raj'' (Channel 4, August 1997),<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/28568
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080111223235/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/28568
|url-status = dead
|archive-date = 11 January 2008
|title = Stones of the Raj
|access-date = 18 August 2007
|publisher = British Film Institute}}</ref> the three-part ''Indian Journeys'' (BBC, August 2002)<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k2/aug/aug107.htm
|title = BBC World to premiere Indian Journeys 20 August
|access-date = 18 August 2007
|publisher = Channel 4}}</ref> and ''Sufi Soul'' (Channel 4, Nov 2005).<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/C/can_you_believe_it/debates/sufi.html
|title = Sufi Soul
|access-date = 18 August 2007
|publisher = Channel 4 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070612183013/http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/C/can_you_believe_it/debates/sufi.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 12 June 2007}}</ref>
The six-part ''Stones of the Raj'' documents the stories behind some of British India's colonial architecture starting with ''Lahore'' (16 August 1997), ''Calcutta'' (23 August 1997), ''The French Connection'' (30 August 1997), ''The Fatal Friendship'' (6 September 1997), ''Surrey in Tibet'' (13 September 1997), and concluded with ''The Magnificent Ruin'' (20 September 1997).
The trilogy of ''Indian Journeys'' consists of three one-hour episodes starting with ''Shiva’s Matted Locks'' which while tracing the source of the Ganga, takes Dalrymple on a journey to the Himalayas. The second part, ''City of Djinns'', is based on his travel book of the same name, takes a look at Delhi's history, and last ''Doubting Thomas'', which takes Dalrymple to the Indian states of [[Kerala]] and [[Tamil Nadu]], where [[Thomas the Apostle|St Thomas, the Apostle]] of Jesus is closely associated.<ref>{{cite news
|url = http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/television/2002/august/28541.htm
|date = 9 August 2002
|title = The voyager – William Dalrymple
|access-date = 17 August 2007
|publisher = Mid Day}}</ref>
He has done a six-part history series ''The Long Search'' for Radio 4.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/05_may/27/long_search.shtml
|title = The Long Search
|access-date = 18 August 2007
|publisher = BBC}}</ref> In this series Dalrymple searches to discover the spiritual roots of the British Isles. Dalrymple says "In the course of my travels I often came across the assumption that intense spirituality was somehow the preserve of what many call 'the mystic East'... it's a misconception that has always irritated me as I've always regarded our own indigenous British traditions of spirituality as especially rich."
The BBC broadcast a documentary on 3 September 2015 entitled ''Love and Betrayal in India: The White Mughal'',<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/18SDBJqWwgc7VLDM7MhGK2S/a-love-story-that-broke-the-conventional-boundaries-of-empire A love story that broke the conventional boundaries of Empire] BBC September 2015</ref> based on Dalrymple's book ''White Mughals''.
Dalrymple was the historical consultant to ITV's 2019 series ''Beecham House''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1146791/Beecham-House-ITV-How-historically-accurate-is-Beecham-House-true-story-John-Beecham|title=Beecham House ITV: How historically accurate is Beecham House?|date=30 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/tv/is-the-tv-show-beecham-house-a-case-of-raj-nostalgia-two-british-historians-weigh-in/story-BplhUbetnvk9HZEwnsrr3I.html|title = Is the TV show Beecham House a case of Raj nostalgia? Two British historians weigh in|date = 3 August 2019}}</ref>
==Works==
*''[[In Xanadu]]'' (1989)
*''[[City of Djinns|City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi]]'' (1994)
*''[[From the Holy Mountain|From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium]]'' (1997)
*''[[The Age of Kali]]'' (1998)
*''[[White Mughals]]'' (2002)
*''[[The Last Mughal|The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857]]'' (2006)
*''[[Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India]]''. London, Bloomsbury. (2009) {{ISBN|978-1-4088-0061-4}}
*''[[Return of a King|Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan]]'' (2012) {{ISBN|978-1-4088-1830-5}}
*''The Writer’s Eye'' (2016) Harper Collins India  {{ISBN|978-9-3517-7925-4}}
*''[[Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond]]'' (2017) {{ISBN|978-1-63557-076-2}}
*''[[The Anarchy (book)|The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company]]'' (2019) {{ISBN|978-1-40886-437-1}}
'''Editor'''
*''Lonely Planet Sacred India''. Lonely Planet Publications, (1999) {{ISBN|1740593669}}
*''[[Begums Thugs And White Mughals|Begums, Thugs & White Mughals: The Journals of Fanny Parkes]]'' (2002)
*''Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi 1707–1857''. Penguin Books India, (2012) {{ISBN|978-0-1434-1906-8}}
*''Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company''. Philip Wilson Publishers, (2020) {{ISBN|978-1781301012}}
==Awards and honours==
* ''In Xanadu'' received the 1990 ''[[Yorkshire Post]]'' Best First Work Award and the [[Scottish Arts Council]] Spring Book Award.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.oxfordbookstore.com/oxfordonline/asppages/item_final.asp?strSKU=BD95637&strSKUSrl=2&sid=2FK4E9B103R89N6LEB8SW8WC3C500439
|title = The Last Mughal
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|publisher = Oxford Bookstore |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080111172107/http://www.oxfordbookstore.com/oxfordonline/asppages/item_final.asp?strSKU=BD95637&strSKUSrl=2&sid=2FK4E9B103R89N6LEB8SW8WC3C500439 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 11 January 2008}}</ref>
* ''City of Djinns'' received the 1994 [[Thomas Cook Travel Book Award]] and the ''[[The Sunday Times (UK)|Sunday Times]]'' Young British Writer of the Year Award.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://home.comcast.net/~netaylor1/cooktravel.html
|title = thomas cook travel book award 1980–2003
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|publisher = THE BOOKLIST CENTER }}</ref>
* ''From the Holy Mountain'' received the 1997 [[Scottish Arts Council]] Autumn Book Award.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.stanfords.co.uk/stock/from-the-holy-mountain-a-journey-in-the-shadow-of-byzantium-72283/
|title = From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|publisher = Stanfords}}</ref>
* ''The Age of Kali'' (1998) won the 2005 French Prix d'Astrolabe.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.stanfords.co.uk/stock/age-of-kali-indian-travels-and-encounters-80706/
|title = Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|publisher = Stanfords |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927213031/http://www.stanfords.co.uk/stock/age-of-kali-indian-travels-and-encounters-80706/ <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 27 September 2007}}</ref>
* ''White Mughals: Love & Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India'' (2002) won the 2001 [[Wolfson Prize for History]].<ref name="thecitycircle2007">{{cite web
|url = http://www.thecitycircle.com/events_full_text2.php?id=347
|title = White Mughals
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|publisher = The City Circle |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071006094446/http://www.thecitycircle.com/events_full_text2.php?id=347 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 6 October 2007}}</ref>
* Dalrymple was awarded the [[Mungo Park Medal]] in 2002 by the [[Royal Scottish Geographical Society]] for his outstanding contribution to [[travel literature]].<ref name="britishcouncil">{{cite web
|url        = http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth519D193A0f109211E7HsY1BA97C3
|title      = William Dalrymple
|access-date  = 30 June 2007
|publisher  = Contemporary Writers: British Council
|url-status    = dead
|archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20071001130054/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth519D193A0f109211E7HsY1BA97C3
|archive-date = 1 October 2007
|df          = dmy-all
}}</ref>
* The television series ''Stones of the Raj'' and ''Indian Journeys'', which Dalrymple wrote and presented, won him the [[Grierson Award]] for Best Documentary Series at [[BAFTA]] in 2002.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/AuthorLounge/AuthorDetail.asp?aid=2754
|title = William Dalrymple
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|publisher = Penguin Books India |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070109062249/http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/AuthorLounge/AuthorDetail.asp?aid=2754 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 9 January 2007}}</ref>
* ''The Long Search'', Dalrymple's [[BBC Radio 4]] series on the history of British [[spirituality]] and [[mysticism]], won the 2002 [[Sandford St Martin Trust|Sandford St Martin Prize]] for Religious Broadcasting and was described by the judges as "thrilling in its brilliance...near perfect radio."<ref name="britishcouncil" />
* ''White Mughals: Love & Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India'' (2002) won the 2003 Scottish Book of the Year Prize.<ref name="thecitycircle2007"/>
* Dalrymple's article on ''[[madrasas]]'' of Pakistan was awarded the prize for Best Print Article of the Year at the 2005 FPA Media Awards.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.cerebration.org/dalrymple.html
|title = Author in Focus: Interview with William Dalrymple
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|publisher = Penguin Books India}}</ref>
* The Sykes Medal in 2005 from the [[Royal Society for Asian Affairs]] for his contribution "to understanding (of) contemporary Islam."<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/AuthorLounge/AuthorDetail.asp?aid=2754
|title = William Dalrymple
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|publisher = Cerebration.Org |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070109062249/http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/AuthorLounge/AuthorDetail.asp?aid=2754 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 9 January 2007}}</ref>
* An [[Honorary Doctorate]] of Letters, Honoris Causa, from the [[University of St. Andrews]] in 2006 "for his services to literature and international relations, to broadcasting and understanding."<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://calvin.st-andrews.ac.uk/external_relations/news_article.cfm?reference=955
|title = Honorary Degrees June 2006
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|publisher = University of St. Andrews}}</ref>
* ''The Last Mughal'' won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for History and Biography in February 2007.<ref name="nybooks.com"/>
* Dalrymple received an [[Honorary Doctorate]] of Letters, Honoris Causa, from the [[University of Lucknow]] in 2007 "for his outstanding contribution in literature and history."<ref>{{cite news
|url = http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Girls-steal-the-show-at-LU-convocation/240394/
|title = Girls steal the show at LU convocation
|date = 18 November 2007
|access-date = 19 November 2007
|publisher = Express India}}</ref>
* ''The Last Mughal'' won the 2007 [[Vodafone Crossword Book Award]] for best work in English non-fiction.<ref>{{cite news
|url =http://www.indiainfoline.com/news/innernews.asp?storyId=72532&lmn=1&cat=18
|title =Vodafone Crossword Popular Book Awards honours best writers
|date = 5 July 2008
|access-date = 5 July 2008
|publisher = India Infoline.com}}</ref>
* An [[Honorary Doctorate]] of Letters, Honoris Causa, from the [[University of Aberdeen]] (2008).<ref>{{cite news
|url =http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/716673?UserKey=0
|title =Graduates told to make their mark in life
|date = 8 July 2008
|access-date = 5 July 2008
|publisher = The Press and Journal}}</ref>
* The 2008 Colonel James Tod Award given by the Maharana Mewar Foundation for achieving excellence in his field.<ref>{{cite news
|url =http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/03/08/stories/2008030852170100.htm
|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20121103023453/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/03/08/stories/2008030852170100.htm
|url-status =dead
|archive-date =3 November 2012
|title =The winners take it all
|date = 8 March 2008
|access-date = 6 August 2008
|work =[[The Hindu]]
|location=Chennai, India}}</ref>
* ''Nine Lives'' received the 2010 Asia House Award for Asian Literature.
* The Media Citizen Puraskar by the Indian Confederation of NGOs for emphasising as an author issues of global importance and concern.<ref>{{cite news
|url =http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?702803
|title =Anupam Kher, William Dalrymple Honoured
|date = 27 November 2010
|access-date = 29 November 2010
|publisher =OutlookIndia.com}}</ref>
* [[Honorary Doctorate]] from the [[University of Bradford]] for his contributions to creative writing, literature and the Indian Subcontinent history fields (2012).<ref>{{cite news
|url =http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/localbrad/9817523.University_of_Bradford_degree_honours_for_familiar_faces/
|title =University of Bradford degree honours for familiar faces
|date = 14 July 2012
|access-date = 21 July 2017
|publisher = The Telegraph & Argus}}</ref>
* Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the [[University of Edinburgh]].<ref>[http://www.scotsman.com/news/education/university-of-edinburgh-graduates-1-3816017 University Of Edinburgh graduates] The Scotsman 30 June 2015</ref>
* The 2015 [[Premio Hemingway|Hemingway Prize]] for ''Return of a King''.<ref>[http://www.telegraphindia.com/pressrelease/prnw/enin201506221778_indiapublic.html#.Vf-Q7H3CdTU Bloomsbury is Delighted to Announce That the Italian Edition of William Dalrymple's Return of a King] The Telegraph 23 June 2015</ref>
* The 2015 [[Ryszard Kapuściński Award|Kapuściński Prize]] for ''Return of a King''.<ref>[http://www.davidgodwinassociates.com/blog/2015/9/14/william-dalrymple-wins-the-kapuciski-prize William Dalrymple wins the Kapuściński Prize] David Godwin Associates 14 September 2015</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/bloomsburyindia/status/642243151558672384 Kapuściński Prize for RETURN OF A KING] Bloomsbury India's Twitter account 11 September 2015</ref>
*Elected a Corresponding Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/william-dalrymple/|title=Mr William Hamilton Dalrymple CorrFRSE - The Royal Society of Edinburgh|work=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en-GB}}</ref>
*Elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Dalrymple |first=William |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26483320 |title=BBC News - Is Afghanistan really impossible to conquer? |publisher=Bbc.com |date=2014-03-08 |access-date=2014-08-11}}</ref>
* He was awarded the [[President's Medal (British Academy)|President's Medal]] of the [[British Academy]] "for his literary achievements and for co-founding Jaipur Literary Festival".<ref name="britac.ac.uk"/>
==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.williamdalrymple.uk.com William Dalrymple's Home Page]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080430223841/http://www.newstatesman.com/print/200401190012 Islamophobia] Article by William Dalrymple
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