Rana Dasgupta is the author of the short story collection, Tokyo Cancelled, which was shortlisted for the 2005 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (UK) and the Hutch Crossword Book Award (India), and the novel Solo, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2010 for Best Book. His non-fiction work, Capital, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2015 and the Ondaatje Prize in 2015.