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Kiran Desai Biography
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Kiran Desai is the Indian-American writer whose novel The Inheritance of Loss (2006) won the Man Booker Prize and the fiction award from the National Book Critics Circle. The daughter of novelist Anita Desai (author of 1984's In Custody), Kiran Desai grew up in India, England and the United States. After starting college studies in science she switched to writing, and published her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, in 1998. The book earned praise from critics and got a boost from kind words by Salman Rushdie. Desai then spent six years writing The Inheritance of Loss, a novel that examines the intricacies of relationships in post-colonial India, England and the U.S.
Four Good Links
Interview: Kiran Desai
Audio interview from 2007 about her life and work
Bookshelf: Kiran Desai
Background and related links
Kiran Desai and The Inheritance of Loss
National Public Radio audio interview from 2006
BookBrowse: Kiran Desai
Author biography and 2006 interview
Vital Stats
Birth
3 September 1971
(age 38)
Birthplace
Death
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Best Known As
The author of the novel The Inheritance of Loss