Kiran Desai

    Kiran Desai was born in 1971 in  Chandigarh, and spent the early years of her life in Pune and Mumbai. She studied in the Cathedral and John Connon School. She is the daughter of the author, Anita Desai, who herself has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times
    She left India at 14, and she and her mother then lived in England for a year, and then moved to the United States.She studied creative writing at Columbia University.


Born:    3 September 1971 Chandigarh, India
Occupation:     Novelist
Nationality:    Indian
Notable work(s):    The Inheritance of Loss
Notable award(s):    Man Booker Prize 2006

Works

• Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard  1998

• The Inheritance of Loss 2006

Awards

• Betty Trask Award for Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard in the year 1998

• Man Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss in the year 2006

•  National Book Critics Circle Award for The Inheritance of Loss in the year 2006