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Kiran Desai

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    Writing On The Podium

    Bookers of the winning feather flock tog­­ether. The bescarved Salman Rushdie and Kiran Desai made a happy stand at the New York Indian Film Festival before heading in to watch t...

    Photograph by Maria Boyadjieva
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    Kiran Desai won the 2006 Man Booker Prize for her novel, 'The Inheritance of Loss'

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    Kiran Desai, the winner of the Man Booker Prize, displays her book after a ceremony at the Guildhall in London, Tuesday, October 10. The India-born novelist scooped the 50,000 po...

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  • Dear Kiran, Leave Them Girls Alone
    Saris or jeans, salwar kameez or skirts, it's clearly only a matter of personal preference: it is ill-advised of women in the public eye to play into misogynist hands by picking on other women
    Oct 01, 2014
    | Priyamvada Gopal
  • A Literary Inheritance
    Kiran Desai becomes the youngest woman ever to win the Man Booker prize for her novel, The Inheritance of Loss — a prize that has eluded her thrice-nominated mother
    Oct 11, 2006
    | Outlook Web Bureau
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Magazine
  • Bibliofile
    Hullabaloo in the Orhan Pamuk-Kiran Desai nest: the Nobel and the Booker winner have ended their two-year relationship
    Apr 16, 2012
    | Outlook
  • Chomiomo, the Kalimpong cottage that Kiran Desai's parents built, and where her novel is set
    Worms In The Cottage Cheese
    Kalimpongwallahs, her aunt included, take offence at Desai's dark portrait of their idyll
    Nov 06, 2006
    | Jaideep Mazumdar
  • Pretty In Prose
    Revisiting the book that makes its author the youngest woman writer to win the prize
    Oct 23, 2006
    | Kalpish Ratna
  • "I Don't Feel Any Different"
    Kiran Desai defies the odds to win a Booker for her Inheritance
    Oct 23, 2006
    | Sheela Reddy
  • Bibliofile
    Now that another semi-Delhi girl is shortlisted for the Booker, perhaps it can be revealed how Ms Roy faked the famous "Gosh!" as well as her look of surprise?
    Oct 02, 2006
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  • In An Antic Land
    Desai's eye for detail is meticulous, but her rich fund of humour makes her images delightfully spontaneous. The luxurious prose almost makes up for the novel's lack of emotional heft.
    Jan 30, 2006
    | Kalpish Ratna
  • Treetop Escapades
    A hilarious and affectionate evocation of small-town India
    Apr 20, 1998
    | Mini Kapoor
  • Rushdie And The Sea Of Prejudice
    A '50 years' anthology of the finest Indian writing marred by tall claims and inexcusable exclusions
    Jul 16, 1997
    | Tarun J. Tejpal
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