Siddhartha Deb

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Born in Shillong, northeastern India, Siddhartha Deb lives in New York. His fiction and nonfiction have been longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, and been awarded the PEN Open Book Award and the 2024 Anthony Veasna So Fiction Prize. His journalism and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, New Republic, Dissent, The Baffler, n+1, and Caravan.

Angels over Chattarpur

May 2025
Siddhartha Deb
Still from All That Breathes (2022), dir. Shaunak Sen / Courtesy of Sundance Institute When long-haired androgynous creatures, flying over Delhi, begin to show up on Snapchat feeds and…
The Light at the End of the World by Siddhartha Deb

Siddhartha Deb
New York. Soho Press. 2023. 458 pages. In one of my favorite moments in Siddhartha Deb’s ambitious, multiple-strand, cross-genre epic The Light at the End of the World, a man stands before an oracula…