He wrote and presented the television series Stones of the Raj and Indian Journeys, which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA in 2002. In 2002 he was awarded the Mungo Park Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for his ‘outstanding contribution to travel literature’.
William Dalrymple is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society, and is the founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival. White Mughals was published in 2003, the book won the Wolfson Prize for History 2003, the Scottish Book of the Year Prize, and was shortlisted for the PEN History Award, the Kiryama Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. A collection of his writings about India, The Age of Kali, won the French Prix D’Astrolabe in 2005. From the Holy Mountain, his acclaimed study of the demise of Christianity in its Middle Eastern homeland, was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Autumn Book Award for 1997 it was also shortlisted for the 1998 Thomas Cook Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. In 1989 Dalrymple moved to Delhi where he lived for six years researching his second book, City of Djinns, which won the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. The book won the 1990 Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award and a Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award it was also shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize.
He wrote the highly acclaimed bestseller In Xanadu when he was twenty-two. ‘ The Anarchy‘ will be mounted as an international co-production to be produced across the US, the UK and India.William Dalrymple was born in Scotland and brought up on the shores of the Firth of Forth. We look forward to creating a globally-relevant series that will appeal to audiences across geographies, languages and cultures.” “Jeremy’s expertise in crafting intricate character-driven narratives that are deeply rooted in history and setting them against a huge canvas makes him the perfect collaborator for this project. Talking about the project, Siddharth Roy Kapur said, “We are delighted to announce that we have brought on board the acclaimed BAFTA award winning screenwriter Jeremy Brock to adapt William Dalrymple’s global bestseller ‘The Anarchy’ into a premium series.
Dalrymple will serve as a creative consultant. Executive producers on the project include Paul Lee, Siddharth Roy Kapur and Naz Haider. The production will be done by global independent studio WIIP and India’s Roy Kapur Films. With a career spanning over two decades, Jeremy Brock is a member of both the American and British Academies.
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