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Kiran Desai

Kiran 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  .In January 2015, The Economic Times listed her as one of 20 "most influential" global Indian women.Kiran Desai is the daughter of Anita Desai, herself short-listed for the Booker Prize on three occasions. She was born in Delhi, then spent the early years of her life in Pune and Mumbai. She studied at the Cathedral and John Connon School. She left India at 14, and she and her mother lived in England for a year before moving to the United States, where she studied creative writing at Bennington College, Hollins University, and Columbia University.

Books by Kiran Desai
  • Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
  • The Inheritance of Loss
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