Kiran Desai
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Kiran Desai 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.[3]
Early life and education
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Desai studied creative writing at Bennington College, Hollins University, and Columbia University.[4]
Work
Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published in 1998 and received accolades from such figures as Salman Rushdie.[5] It won the Betty Trask Award,[6] a prize given by the Society of Authors for best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age of 35.[7]
Her second book, The Inheritance of Loss, (2006) was widely praised by critics throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. The novel is set in the Himalayas and explores themes of identity and culture clash, as well as the impact of colonialism.[8] It won the 2006 Man Booker Prize, as well as the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.[2] Desai became the youngest-ever woman to win the Booker Prize at the age of 35 (this record was broken by Eleanor Catton in 2013).[9]
In August 2008, Desai was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme hosted by Michael Berkeley on BBC Radio 3.[10] In May 2007, she was the featured author at the inaugural Asia House Festival of Cold Literature.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In 2008, the Gates Foundation project invited Desai to report on a community of sex workers in the coastal state of Andhra Pradesh.[11]
In 2009, she was presented with the Columbia University Medal for Excellence.[11]
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In 2017 Desai said that she had been working for more than a decade on a new book "about power… about a young Indian woman out in India and the world".[12] In December 2024 it was announced that after a break of nearly two decades, her next novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, would release in the fall of 2025 from Hogarth, an imprint of Random House Publishing Group.[13]
Bibliography
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See also
References
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External links
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- Kiran Desai at the American Academy Berlin as Holtzbrinck Fellow
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