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Rana Dasgupta to attend Windham-Campbell Festival at Yale
The program opens on Sept. 16 with a welcome event on Yale’s Cross Campus and concludes Sept. 19 with a reading by all prize recipients at the Yale Center for British Art.
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Pranavi Sharma - Sat, 13, Sep 2025
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Rana Dasgupta / Windham-Campbell
Indian-origin writer Rana Dasgupta, one of eight recipients of the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prizes, will participate in a four-day literary festival at Yale University beginning Sept. 16. The annual event, hosted by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, brings together honorees for public readings, conversations, and discussions on literature.
Dasgupta, awarded in the nonfiction category, was recognized for what the prize citation called his “perceptive critique of global hypercapitalism, industrialization, politics, and class,” with particular reference to his book ‘Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First-Century Delhi’. The award includes a $175,000 cash prize, one of the largest given in the literary world.
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The 2025 prize winners include Sigrid Nunez (United States) and Anne Enright (Ireland) in fiction; Patricia J. Williams (United States) alongside Dasgupta in nonfiction; Roy Williams (United Kingdom) and Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini (United Kingdom) in drama; and Anthony V. Capildeo (Scotland/Trinidad and Tobago) and Tongo Eisen-Martin (United States) in poetry.
Festival director Michael Kelleher said the gathering remains central to the program’s purpose. “We are thrilled to once again gather at Yale to recognize the achievements of the 2025 prize recipients and learn more about their work and perspectives,” he said. He added, “Providing students and the public the opportunity to interact with the prize recipients in fun and meaningful ways is a highlight of organizing the festival.”
The program opens on Sept. 16 with a welcome event on Yale’s Cross Campus and concludes Sept. 19 with a reading by all prize recipients at the Yale Center for British Art. Yale President Maurie McInnis will formally confer the prizes on Sept. 17. A keynote lecture by Jamaican poet laureate Kwame Dawes, who won the prize in 2019, will follow the ceremony.
Dasgupta is also scheduled to appear on Sept. 19 in a conversation titled “The Global Countryside” with researcher Maryam Aslany. The discussion, moderated by Yale anthropology professor Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, will draw from a forthcoming podcast on the lives of cotton farmers in India.
The Windham-Campbell Prizes, established in 2013, honor eight writers each year across four categories. The festival’s events are free and open to the public.
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