William Dalrymple CBE
Historian, Best-Selling Author, and Co-Host of the Empire Podcast
One of Britain’s great historians, William Dalrymple CBE is the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals; The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize; and the Hemingway Prize-winning and Kapuściński Award-winning Return of a King. A frequent broadcaster, he has written and presented three television series, including Indian Journeys, which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA. He has also won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and Foreign Correspondent of the Year at the FPA Media Awards.
Awarded five honorary doctorates, Dalrymple is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has held visiting fellowships at Princeton and Brown. He writes regularly for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and The Guardian. In 2018 he was presented with the prestigious President’s Medal by the British Academy for his outstanding literary achievement and for co-founding the Jaipur Literature Festival. He is the co-host of chart-topping podcast Empire with Anita Anand.
