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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.