Kiran Desai

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Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai, mid-2000s
Born September 3, 1971 (1971-09-03) (age 36)
Flag of India New Delhi, India
Occupation Novelist
Nationality Indian
Writing period 1998 to present
Notable work(s) The Inheritance of Loss
Influences

Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971)[1] is an Indian author who is a citizen of India and a Permanent Resident of the United States. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize[1] and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. She is the daughter of the noted author Anita Desai.

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[edit] Early life and education

Kiran Desai was born in New Delhi, India, and lived there until she was 14. She and her mother then lived in England for a year, and finally moved to the United States where she studied creative writing at Bennington College, Hollins University and Columbia University.[2]

[edit] Awards and recognition

Her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published in 1998 and received accolades from such notable figures as Salman Rushdie.[3] It went on to win the Betty Trask Award,[4] a prize given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age of 35.[5]

Her second book, The Inheritance of Loss, (2006) has been widely praised by critics throughout Asia, Europe and the United States and won the 2006 Man Booker Prize[1] as well as the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.[6]

In September 2007 she was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme hosted by Michael Berkeley on BBC Radio 3.[7]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Booker Prize Foundation (10 October 2006). "The Inheritance of Loss Wins the Man Booker Prize 2006". Press release. Retrieved on 2006-10-10.
  2. ^ Bold Type: Interview with Kiran Desai. Random House. Retrieved on 2007-09-04.
  3. ^ Hullabaloo In The Guava Orchard. BookBrowse. Retrieved on 2006-10-10.
  4. ^ Society of Authors — Prizes, Grants and Awards. Society of Authors. Retrieved on 2006-10-10.
  5. ^ The Betty Trask Prize and Awards. Christchurch City Libraries. Retrieved on 2006-10-10.
  6. ^ Skloot, Rebecca (2007-03-08). And the 2006 NBCC Award for Fiction Goes to .... Critical Mass. The National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved on 2007-05-11.
  7. ^ BBC - Radio 3 - Private Passions

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Man Booker Prize for Fiction
1969–1980

P. H. Newby (1969) Bernice Rubens (1970) · V. S. Naipaul (1971) · John Berger (1972) · James Gordon Farrell (1973) · Nadine Gordimer / Stanley Middleton (1974) · Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1975) · David Storey (1976) · Paul Scott (1977) · Iris Murdoch (1978) · Penelope Fitzgerald (1979) · William Golding (1980)
1981–2000

Salman Rushdie (1981) · Thomas Keneally (1982) · John Maxwell Coetzee (1983) · Anita Brookner (1984) · Keri Hulme (1985) · Kingsley Amis (1986) · Penelope Lively (1987) · Peter Carey (1988) · Kazuo Ishiguro (1989) · A. S. Byatt (1990) · Ben Okri (1991) · Michael Ondaatje / Barry Unsworth (1992) · Roddy Doyle (1993) · James Kelman (1994) · Pat Barker (1995) · Graham Swift (1996) · Arundhati Roy (1997) · Ian McEwan (1998) · John Maxwell Coetzee (1999) · Margaret Atwood (2000)
2001–present

Peter Carey (2001) · Yann Martel (2002) · DBC Pierre (2003) · Alan Hollinghurst (2004) · John Banville (2005) · Kiran Desai (2006) · Anne Enright (2007)
Persondata
NAME Desai, Kiran
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Indian author
DATE OF BIRTH 3 September 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH New Delhi, India
DATE OF DEATH living
PLACE OF DEATH