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Kiran Desai is the daughter of famous novelist
Anita Desai.
Born in India in 1971, Kiran lived in Delhi until she was 14, then
spent a year in England, before her family moved to the USA.
She completed her schooling in Massachusetts before attending Bennington
College; Hollins University and Columbia University, where she studied
creative
writing, taking two years off to write Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard.
Kiran Desai first came to literary attention in 1977 when she
was published in the New Yorker and in Mirrorwork, an anthology of
50 years of Indian writing edited by Salman Rushdie.
In 1998, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, which had taken four years
to write, was
published and it won rave reviews. Eight years
later, The Inheritance of Loss was published in early 2006, and won
the 2006 Booker Prize.
When talking of the characters in The Inheritance of Loss, and of
her own life, she says, "The characters of my story are entirely
fictional, but these journeys (of her grandparents) as well as my
own provided insight into what it means to travel between East and
West and it is this I wanted to capture. The fact that I live this
particular life is no accident. It was my inheritance."
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