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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.
Apr 30, 2024 · 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.
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: 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...
Kiran Desai has 17 books on Goodreads with 125959 ratings. Kiran Desai’s most popular book is The Inheritance of Loss.
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 was born in India in 1971, she lived in Delhi until she was 14, then spent a year in England, before her family moved to the USA. She completed her schooling in Massachusetts before attending Bennington College; Hollins University and Columbia University, where she studied creative writing, taking two years off to write Hullabaloo ...
Nov 28, 2005 · Kiran Desai. 3.45. 53,028 ratings4,467 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.
Dec 11, 2014 · Because she spent her childhood in an India, that had not yet opened its doors to the larger world, Indian novelist, Kiran Desai, had only her knowledge from books to rely on, before she later...
Dec 1, 2007 · Published to extraordinary acclaim, The Inheritance of Loss heralds Kiran Desai as one of our most insightful novelists. She illuminates the pain of exile and the ambiguities of...
