Siddhartha Deb

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

Siddhartha Deb (Bengali: সিদ্ধাৰ্থ দেব) (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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  1. ↑ "A first-timer with a point of view...". The Hindu. Sep 26, 2002. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
  2. 1 2 Sherman, Scott. "Winners And Losers in The “New India”: Siddhartha Deb With Scott Sherman". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 23 April 2013. C1 control character in |title= at position 27 (help)
  3. ↑ Siddhartha Deb (24 March 2010). "Siddhartha Deb from HarperCollins Publishers". Harpercollins.com. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
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