Frasi di William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple è uno storico e scrittore britannico.

Ha scritto 3 libri basati sui suoi viaggi in Medio Oriente e nel Sud-Est asiatico, saggi e romanzi storici sull'India. Trascorre la maggior parte dell'anno a Nuova Delhi, mentre torna d'estate a Londra ed Edimburgo. È sposato e ha 3 figli.

Scrive regolarmente per The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, New Statesman e The New Yorker. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. Marzo 1965   •   Altri nomi William Dalrymple (historian)
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William Dalrymple: Frasi in inglese

“I am a terrible linguist. It`s a great shame that I have not learnt Urdu and Persian.”

In Zeenews, William Dalrymple's book on first Anglo-Afghan war out in December http://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/bookworm/william-dalrymple-s-book-on-first-anglo-afghan-war-out-in-december_2501.htm, IANS, 12 September 2012,

“I am writing definitely primarily for an audience who don’t know India.”

In Amrita Ghosh, "Author in Focus: An Interview with Dalrymple".

“The current Western puppet Hamid Karzai is from the same sub-tribe as Shah Shuja, who was a British puppet in 1839, It is the same war under slightly different flags.”

In Zeenews, "William Dalrymple's book on first Anglo-Afghan war out in December"
Pointed out that the Afghan tribe which resisted 1839 invasion now make up of the foot soldiers of Taliban.

“In the course of my travels I often came across the assumption that intense spirituality was somehow the preserve of what many call 'the mystic east'… it's a misconception that has always irritated me as I've always regarded our own indigenous British traditions of spirituality as especially rich.”

In The Long Search http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/05_may/27/long_search.shtml, BBC, 27 May 2002
On his search to discover the roots of spirituality in the British Isles covering the "divine supermarket" of Roman Britain with a plethora of gods - Celtic, Roman, Persian and a new god from Palestine called Jesus.

“He is one of Britain’s most successful travel writers, whose highly entertaining books elegantly combine scholarship and story-telling, trans-cultural investigations and romance.”

Jules Smith, in William Dalrymple: Critical Perspective http://literature.britishcouncil.org/william-dalrymple, 2007, British Council.
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