Writing into the Unknown
Friday, October 28th, 2011
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, October 28, 2011 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
Description
Rana Dasgupta’s fiction has often been set in places he does not know. Here he talks about the productive qualities of ignorance for the writer, and the significance, within global culture, of everything we do not know. According to Salman Rushdie’s claim, Rana is “the most unexpected and original Indian writer of his generation”.
Rana Dasgupta was born in Canterbury, England in 1971 and studied at Balliol College, Oxford and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After his studies he worked for a marketing consultancy firm which took him to London, Kuala Lumpur and then New York. In 2001, he moved to Delhi to write.His first novel, Tokyo Cancelled, appeared in 2005 and was shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize. Solo (2009) won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. His essays have appeared in such places as Granta, The Missouri Review and The New Statesman.
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