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Kiran Desai

India (b.1971)
Daughter of Anita Desai

Kiran Desai 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.

Awards: NBCC (2006), Booker (2006), SoA (1998) see all

Novels

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998)
The Inheritance of Loss (2005)

Awards

	2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction : The Inheritance of Loss
	2006 Booker Prize : The Inheritance of Loss
	1998 Betty Trask Prize : Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

Award nominations

2007 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee) : The Inheritance of Loss

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Black River (2023)
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"A riveting murder mystery."

The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land (2022)
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"As outrageously funny as they are outrageously tender, Friedlander's stories conjure complex and often difficult emotions with perfect acrobatic skill. A superb collection."

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