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 Fiction Award. In 2015, The Economic Times named her one of 20 most influential global Indian women.
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- Born in
- New Delhi
- Educated at
- Columbia UniversityBennington CollegeColumbia University School of the Arts
- Awards
- 🏆 Booker Prize🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Berlin Prize🏆 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
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1971
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