at BAFTA in 2002. The Long Search, Dalrymple's BBC Radio 4 series on the history of British spirituality and mysticism, won the 2002 Sandford St Martin Prize for Religious Broadcasting and was described by the judges as "thrilling in its brilliance...near perfect radio." White Mughals: Love & Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India (2002) won the 2003 Scottish Book of the Year Prize. Dalrymple's article on madrasas of Pakistan was awarded the prize for Best Print Article of the Year at the 2005 FPA Media Awards. The Sykes Medal in 2005 from the Royal Society for Asian Affairs for his contribution "to understanding (of) contemporary Islam." 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." The Last Mughal won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for History and Biography in February 2007. Dalrymple received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Honoris Causa, from the University of Lucknow in 2007 "for his outstanding contribution in literature and history." The Last Mughal won the 2007 Vodafone Crossword Book Award for best work in English non-fiction. An Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Honoris Causa, from the University of Aberdeen (2008). The 2008 Colonel James Tod Award given by the Maharana Mewar Foundation for achieving excellence in his field. 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. Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bradford for his contributions to creative writing, literature and the Indian Subcontinent history fields (2012). Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Edinburgh. The 2015 Hemingway Prize for Return of a King. The 2015 Kapuściński Prize for Return of a King. Elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. He was awarded the President's Medal of the British Academy "for his literary achievements and for co-founding Jaipur Literary Festival". He was awarded the 2022 Minerva Medal of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow for his contribution to the writing of history. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. References External links William Dalrymple's Home Page Islamophobia Article by William Dalrymple 1965 births 21st-century Scottish historians Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge British expatriates in India Historians of India Indian travel writers Living people