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Kiran Desai
Winning the Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss.
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard · The Inheritance of Loss
- Born
- 3 September 1971
- Birthplace
- India
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Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai is an Indian-born novelist whose fiction explores migration, class and the pull of different countries. Her second novel won the 2006 Booker Prize.
Early life
Growing up
Spent her childhood in India before moving to England and then the United States as a teenager.
Education
Studied at Bennington College, Hollins and Columbia.
Career
- 1998
Debut novel
Published Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard.
- 2006
Booker Prize
Won for The Inheritance of Loss.
- 2025
Third novel
Published The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny.
Selected work
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
A comic novel about a man who retreats into a tree.
The Inheritance of Loss
Links lives in the Himalayan foothills with migration to America.
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Follows an Indian couple and their families across borders.
Beyond work
Literary family
Her mother is novelist Anita Desai.
Reporting
Travelled to Andhra Pradesh in 2008 to write about sex workers and HIV prevention.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗The Booker Prizes ↗Photo: Phibeatrice. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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