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Bookmark or Share- Kiran Desai - WikipediaKiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. In January 2015, The Economic Times listed her as one of 20 "most influential" global Indian women.
- Kiran Desai | Biography, Books, & Facts | BritannicaKiran Desai (born September 3, 1971, New Delhi, India) Indian-born American author whose second novel, The Inheritance of Loss (2006), became an international best seller and won the 2006 Booker Prize. Kiran Desai—daughter of the novelist Anita Desai—lived in India until age 15, after which her family moved to England and then to the United ...
- Kiran Desai - Literature - British CouncilBiography. 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 ...
- Kiran Desai (Author of The Inheritance of Loss) - GoodreadsHer 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 Reads 'The Inheritance of Loss' - NPRAt 35, Desai was the youngest woman ever to win. Seven years in the making, The Inheritance of Loss is her second book. Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, is also set in...
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