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Kiran Desai
Indian author (born )
Kiran Desai (born 3 September ) is an Indian author.
Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the Man Booker Prize[1] and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.[2] In January , The Economic Times listed her as one of 20 "most influential" global Indian women.[3]
Early and personal life
Kiran Desai is the daughter of novelist Anita Desai.
Kiran was born in Delhi, then spent the early years of her life in Punjab and in Mumbai, where she studied at 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.
Kiran 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 and received accolades from such figures as Salman Rushdie.[5] It won the Betty Trask Award,[6] a