Facts about Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai is 49 years old
Born: September 3, 1971
Best known as: The author of the novel The Inheritance of Loss
Buy from Amazon.com: Books by Kiran Desai
4 Good Links
Interview: Kiran Desai
Audio interview from 2007 about her life and workBookshelf: Kiran Desai
Background and related linksKiran Desai and The Inheritance of Loss
National Public Radio audio interview from 2006BookBrowse: Kiran Desai
Author biography and 2006 interviewShare this:
Kiran Desai Biography
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.
Related Biography
Something in Common with Kiran Desai
- Writers born in India (6)
- Virgo Writers (44)