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Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. In 2015, The Economic Times named her one of 20 most influential global Indian women.
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culture · Indian author (born 1971) · novelist · writer · also Kiran Desai, Desai
Born 3 September 1971 · Q228589
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2026· 6 entries
“People begin to wonder what’s wrong. Are you really working on something?”
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India Tribune - Chicago: 'Short chapter, but a meaningful one’: Monty Desai resigns as Canada coach - India Tribune
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hrtoday.in: Ravi Desai Appointed Chief Operating Officer at Anupam Rasayan India Ltd
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marketscreener.com: Anupam Rasayan India Limited Announces Appointment of Ravi Desai to Chief Operating Officer, Effective August 14, 2026
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The Economic Times: Mithilesh Desai: Viral mystery man talking to PM Narendra Modi is India’s ‘Jackfruit King’ who uses blockc
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2025· 5 entries
The Guardian: ‘Brilliantly human’: Kiran Desai and David Szalay make Booker prize shortlist
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The Guardian: Kiran Desai: ‘I never thought it would happen in the US’
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The Guardian: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai review – a dazzling epic
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The Guardian: Most global Booker prize longlist in a decade features Kiran Desai and Tash Aw
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By Hogarth, an imprint of Random House Publishing Group
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2017· 2 entries
“about power [...] about a young Indian woman out in India and the world”
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Desai said that she had been working for more than a decade on a new book "about power [
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2015· 1 entry
The Economic Times named her one of 20 most influential global Indian women
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2014· 1 entry
The Guardian: Kiran Desai: 'You look bad if you go to India in western clothes'
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (2013).
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Awarded Berlin Prize (2013).
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2011· 2 entries
The Guardian: In conversation: Kiran Desai meets Anita Desai
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“I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere”
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2009· 5 entries
The Guardian: Guardian Book Club Podcast: Kiran Desai
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The Guardian: Kiran Desai on writing The Inheritance of Loss
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The Guardian: Guardian book club: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
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The Guardian: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
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Received the Columbia University Medal for Excellence
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2008· 2 entries
Desai was a guest on Private Passions, a biographical music discussion programme hosted by Michael Berkeley on BBC Radio 3
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The Gates Foundation invited Desai to report on a community of sex workers in the coastal state of Andhra Pradesh
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2007· 1 entry
Was the featured author at the inaugural Asia House Festival of Cold Literature
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for The Inheritance of Loss (2006).
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Awarded Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss (2006).
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1998· 1 entry
“I think only a novel can get at the raw truth regarding what people are privately thinking and negotiating.”
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1971· 1 entry
Born 1971-09-03.
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