William Dalrymple (historian) - Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

• In Xanadu received the 1990 Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award and the Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award.
• City of Djinns received the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award.
• From the Holy Mountain received the 1997 Scottish Arts Council Autumn Book Award.
• The Age of Kali (1998) won the 2005 French Prix d'Astrolabe.
• White Mughals: Love & Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India (2002) won the 2001 Wolfson Prize for History.
• Dalrymple was awarded the Mungo Park Medal in 2002 by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for his outstanding contribution to travel literature.
• The television series Stones of the Raj and Indian Journeys, which Dalrymple wrote and presented, won him the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series 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 emphasizing 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 south Asian history fields (2012)