Kiran Desai

Infobox Writer


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name = Kiran Desai
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birthdate = Birth date and age|1971|9|3
birthplace = New Delhi, India
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occupation = Novelist
nationality = Indian
period = 1998 to present
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notableworks = "The Inheritance of Loss"
influences = Anita Desai (mother, short-listed for the Booker prize three times)
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Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971)cite press release | title =The Inheritance of Loss Wins the Man Booker Prize 2006 | publisher=Booker Prize Foundation | date = 10 October 2006 | url=http://www.themanbookerprize.com/pressoffice/release?r=28#titletop | accessdate =2006-10-10] is an Indian author who 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 and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. She is the daughter of the noted author Anita Desai.

Early life and education

Kiran Desai was born in New Delhi, India, and lived there until she was 14. She and her mother then lived in England for a year, and finally moved to the United States where she studied creative writing at Bennington College, Hollins University and Columbia University. [cite web| title= Bold Type: Interview with Kiran Desai | publisher=Random House | accessdate=2007-09-04 | url=http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0599/desai/interview.html]

Awards and recognition

Her first novel, "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard", was published in 1998 and received accolades from such notable figures as Salman Rushdie. [cite web| title= Hullabaloo In The Guava Orchard | publisher=BookBrowse | accessdate=2006-10-10 | url=http://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm?book_number=317] It went on to win the Betty Trask Award, [cite web| title=Society of Authors — Prizes, Grants and Awards | publisher = Society of Authors | accessdate=2006-10-10 | url=http://www.societyofauthors.net/soa/page_id_sub.php4?parentid=7&pid=52&par_nm=Prizes,%20grants%20and%20awards] 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. [cite web | title = The Betty Trask Prize and Awards | publisher=Christchurch City Libraries | accessdate=2006-10-10 | url=http://library.christchurch.org.nz/LiteraryPrizes/BettyTrask/]

Her second book, "The Inheritance of Loss," (2006) has been widely praised by critics throughout Asia, Europe and the United States and won the 2006 Man Booker Prize as well as the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. [cite web|work = Critical Mass|title = And the 2006 NBCC Award for Fiction Goes to ... |last = Skloot|first = Rebecca|date = 2007-03-08|publisher = The National Book Critics Circle|accessdate= 2007-05-11|url = http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/2007/03/and-2006-nbcc-award-for-fiction-goes-to_08.html#links]

In September 2007 she was a guest on "Private Passions", the biographical music discussion programme hosted by Michael Berkeley on BBC Radio 3. [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/privatepassions/ BBC - Radio 3 - Private Passions ] ]

Bibliography

* "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

See also

*English literature
*Desai
*Indian English literature

References

External links

* [http://niralimagazine.com/2006/12/legacies-loss-literature/ Legacies, Loss and Literature] , Nirali Magazine, December 2006
* [http://www.sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Desai+Kiran SAWNET biography]
* [http://in.rediff.com/news/2006/jan/30inter1.htm Rediff interview]
* [http://jaiarjun.blogspot.com/2007/02/lunch-with-kiran-desai.html Lunch with Kiran Desai]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0599/desai/interview.html Bold Type: Interview with Kiran Desai]
* [http://www.thecommentary.ca/ontheline/20071105b.html Kiran Desai interview with THECOMMENTARY.CA October 2007]

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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Indian author
DATE OF BIRTH=3 September 1971
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