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William Dalrymple FRSL, FRGS, FRAS (born William Hamilton-Dalrymple on 20 March 1965) is a Scottish historian and writer, art historian and curator, as well as a prominent broadcaster and critic. His books have won numerous awards and prizes, including the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the Hemingway, the Kapuściński and the Wolfson Prizes. He has been four times longlisted and once shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. He is also one of the co-founders and co-directors of the annual Jaipur Literature Festival.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title =The Greatest Literary Show on Earth )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】Looking for something special? Try treasure hunting in India )〕 In 2012 he was appointed a Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow in the Humanities by Princeton University.〔(Short-Term Visiting Fellows ), Princeton University ''retrieved 1 October 2012''.〕 In the Spring of 2015 he was appointed the OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer at Brown University. 〔(), Brown University ''retrieved 28 April 2015''. 〕 ==Personal life== Dalrymple is the son of Sir Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple, 10th Baronet, and a cousin of Virginia Woolf. He was educated at Ampleforth College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was first a history exhibitioner and then a senior history scholar. Dalrymple first came to Delhi in 26 January 1984. Dalrymple has lived in India on and off since 1989 and spends most of the year at his Mehrauli farmhouse in the outskirts of Delhi, but summers in London and Edinburgh. His wife Olivia is an artist and comes from a family with long-standing connections to India. They have three children, Ibby, Sam, and Adam. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Dalrymple (historian)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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