Kiran Desai
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.jpg) Kiran Desai, 2007 |
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| Born | 3 September 1971 New Delhi, India |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Period | 1998 to present |
| Notable work(s) | The Inheritance of Loss |
| Notable award(s) | Man Booker Prize 2006 |
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Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author. She 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.
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Early life[edit]
Desai is the daughter of the Anita Desai, herself short-listed for the Booker Prize on three occasions. She was born in Chandigarh, and spent the early years of her life in Pune and Mumbai. She studied in the Cathedral and John Connon School. She left India at 14, and she and her mother then lived in England for a year, and then moved to the United States, where she studied creative writing at Bennington College, Hollins University, and Columbia University.[2]
Work[edit]
Her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published in 1998 and received accolades from such notable figures as Salman Rushdie.[3] It won 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) was widely praised by critics throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. It won the 2006 Man Booker Prize, as well as the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.[6][citation needed]
In September 2007, Desai was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme hosted by Michael Berkeley on BBC Radio 3.[7][citation needed] In May 2007 she was the featured author at the inaugural Asia House Festival of Cold Literature.
Private life[edit]
In January 2010, Orhan Pamuk, recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, publicly acknowledged that he was in a relationship with Desai.[8]
Bibliography[edit]
- Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Faber and Faber. 1998. ISBN 0-571-19336-6.
- The Inheritance of Loss. Hamish Hamilton Ltd. 2006. ISBN 0-241-14348-9.
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References[edit]
- ^ "Kiran Desai". The Man Booker Prizes. The Booker Prize Foundation. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
- ^ "Bold Type: Interview with Kiran Desai". Random House. Retrieved 2011-06-14.
- ^ "Hullabaloo In The Guava Orchard". BookBrowse. Retrieved 2011-06-14.
- ^ "The Betty Trask Prize and Awards". Christchurch City Libraries. Retrieved 2011-06-14.
- ^ Skloot, Rebecca (2007-03-08). "And the 2006 NBCC Award for Fiction Goes to ...". Critical Mass. The National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved 2011-06-14.
- ^ BBC – Radio 3 – Private Passions[dead link]
- ^ Rao, Ravi (2010-02-01). "Pamuk: It's no secret, Kiran is my girlfriend". Times of India. Retrieved 2011-06-14.
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- Legacies, Loss and Literature, Nirali Magazine, December 2006
- SAWNET biography
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- Bold Type: Interview with Kiran Desai
- Kiran Desai interview with THECOMMENTARY.CA October 2007
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- 1971 births
- Living people
- American Hindus
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century women writers
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- Bennington College alumni
- Booker Prize winners
- Columbia University alumni
- English-language writers from India
- Hollins University alumni
- Indian emigrants to the United States
- Indian novelists
- Indian people of German descent
- Indian women novelists
- American women novelists
