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The Beautiful and the Damned

Life in the New India

by Siddhartha Deb

Publication: First published 2011
ISBNs: 9780141970196, 9781429995184, 9780141033341

Orwell Prize 2012 · Shortlist

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Prize history

Orwell Prize for Political Writing
2012

Orwell Prize for Books, before the 2019 split.

Shortlist

Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2012 shortlist

Dead Men Risen

Toby Harnden

Winner
DarkMarket

Misha Glenny
Hood Rat

Gavin Knight
People Who Eat Darkness

Richard Lloyd Parry
The Opium War

Julia Lovell

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Quichotte

Salman Rushdie
The Story of a Goat

Perumal Murugan
All the Lives We Never Lived

Anuradha Roy
Tomb of Sand

Geetanjali Shree
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Arundhati Roy
When I Hit You

Meena Kandasamy

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