William Dalrymple (born William Hamilton-Dalrymple on 20 March 1965) is a Scottish historian and writer, art historian and curator, as well as an award-winning 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. n 2018, he was awarded the President's Medal of the British Academy.The BBC television documentary on his pilgrimage to the source of the river Ganga, "Shiva's Matted Locks', one of three episodes of his 'Indian Journeys' series, which Dalrymple wrote and presented, won him the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA in 2002.He has been five times longlisted and once shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction.