Siddhartha Deb (born 1970) is an Indian author who was born in Meghalaya and grew up in Shillong in northeastern India. He was educated in India and at Columbia University,[1] US. Deb began his career in journalism as a sports journalist in Calcutta in 1994 before moving to Delhi to continue regular journalism until 1998.[2] His first novel, The Point of Return, is semi-autobiographical in nature and is set in a fictional hill-station that closely resembles Shillong in India's Northeast. His second novel, Surface, also set in Northeast India, is about a disillusioned Sikh journalist. His first non-fiction book, The Beautiful And the Damned: A Portrait of the New India was published in June 2011 by Viking Penguin. He has also contributed to The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Nation, New Statesman, Harper's, the London Review of Books, and The Times Literary Supplement. He currently teaches creative writing at The New School in New York.[2][3]

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Born	1970 Meghalaya, India
Occupation	Writer, professor and journalist
Language	English
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Columbia University
Notable works	The Beautiful and the Damned
Notable awards	PEN/Open Book 2012 The Beautiful and the Damned

Awards and honors

• 2012 PEN/Open Book, The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India
• 2012 Orwell Prize (shortlist), The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India

Bibliography

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Fiction

• The Point of Return. HarperCollins. 2003. ISBN 978-0060501532.
• An Outline of the Republic. HarperCollins. 2005. ISBN 0060501553. published by Picador in the UK as Surface.
• Fraternity. Toluca Editions. 2007. a collaborative project published as a limited edition book with photographer Mitch Epstein

Non-fiction

• The Beautiful and the Damned : Life in the New India. Viking Penguin. 2011. ISBN 978-0865478626.

Articles

• Siddartha Deb (January 2009). "Letter from Manipur: Nowhere land: Along India's border, a forgotten Burmese rebellion". Harper's Magazine. 318 (1904): 43–50.

See also

• Indian literature
• Indian English literature
• Literature from North East India

References

External links

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• In Conversation: Winners and Losers in the “New India”: Siddhartha Deb with Scott Sherman, The Brooklyn Rail
• "On Change in India" Guernica: Magazine of Art and Politics (September 1, 2011)
• Siddhartha Deb articles New Republic

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