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Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize [1] and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. [2] In January 2015, The Economic Times listed her as one of 20 "most influential" global Indian women.
Kiran Desai (born September 3, 1971, New Delhi, India) is an Indian-born American author whose second novel, The Inheritance of Loss (2006), became an international best seller and won the 2006 Booker Prize.
May 27, 2021 · Kiran Desai: The author endowed with marvellous penmanship. By HT School, May 27, 2021 14:00. Kiran Desai won the 2006 Man Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award and many...
Sep 3, 1971 · Her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss (2006), won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. Kiran Desai is an Indian author who is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States. She is the daughter of the noted author Anita Desai.
Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971 and grew up there before moving to England, aged fourteen years. She was educated in India, England and the US. Her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998) won a 1998 Betty Trask Award, and her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss (2006), set in the mid 1980s in a Himalayan village, won the ...
Kiran Desai has 17 books on Goodreads with 126113 ratings. Kiran Desai’s most popular book is The Inheritance of Loss.
She is the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, which was published to huge acclaim in more than 20 countries, and The Inheritance of Loss, which won the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Born. 3 September 1971.
Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971, was educated in India, England and the United States, and now lives in New York. She is the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, which was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries, and The Inheritance of Loss, which won the Man Book Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics ...
Nov 28, 2005 · Kiran Desai. 3.45. 53,072 ratings4,471 reviews. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep.
Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971 and educated in India, England, and the United States. She studied creative writing at Columbia University, where she was the recipient of a Woolrich Fellowship.
