Kulturen der Welt in Berlin with the title "Now is the time of monsters: what comes after nations?" He served as the founding Literary Director of the JCB Prize for Literature founded in 2018 by JCB which will be awarded annually with 25 lakh Indian rupees (US$38,400) to a distinguished work of fiction by an Indian writer. Dasgupta was awarded the prestigious Rabindranath Tagore Literary Award 2019 for his novel Solo. Academic appointments In October 2012, Dasgupta was Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow in the Humanities at Princeton University. Since 2014, he has taught each spring at Brown University where he is Distinguished Visiting Lecturer and Writer-in-Residence in the Department of Modern Culture and Media. Awards 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book for his novel Solo 2017 Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature for Capital 2017 Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Capital 2019 Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize for Solo Bibliography Fiction Tokyo Cancelled (2005) Solo (2009) Non-fiction Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi (2014). Essays "Maximum Cities" (New Statesman, 27 March 2006) "Capital Gains" (Granta 107, Summer 2009) "Writing into the unknown" (Nagledna+, 2013) "Notes on a Suicide" (Granta 140, Summer 2017) "The Demise of the Nation State" (The Guardian, The long read, 5 April 2018) "The Silenced Majority: Can America Still Afford Democracy?" (Harper's Magazine 341, no. 2,047 December 2020, pages 47–56) Further reading Mendes, AC, Lau, L. (2018) “The conjunctural spaces of ‘new India’: Imagined geographies of 2010s India in representations by returnee migrants”, cultural geographies, 1–16. DOI: 10.1177/1474474018786033. Mendes, AC. (2018) “The eruption and ruination of ‘rising India’: Rana Dasgupta’s Capital and the temporalities of Delhi in the 2010s”, Modern Asian Studies, 1–25. DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X17000464. References External links New Statesman article by Rana Dasgupta on the rise of the Third-World city Granta essay by Rana Dasgupta about Delhi's new rich "Rana Dasgupta", Writers Online, Brown University. 1971 births Living people People from Canterbury People from Cambridge 21st-century British novelists Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford British male novelists British people of Indian descent People educated at The Perse School University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni 21st-century British male writers