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{{short description|Indian author}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2016}}
{{Infobox writer 
| image = Kiran Desai 2015.jpg
| imagesize =
| name = Kiran Desai
| caption = Desai at PEN Gala, 5 May 2015
| pseudonym =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|9|3|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[New Delhi]], India
| occupation = [[Novelist]]
| nationality = Indian
| period = 1998–present
| genre =
| subject =
| movement =
| notableworks = {{ubl|''[[The Inheritance of Loss]]''|''[[Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard]]''}}
| awards = {{awd|[[Man Booker Prize]]|2006}}
| relatives = [[Anita Desai]] (mother)

}}

'''Kiran Desai''' (born 3 September 1971) is an [[Indian people|India]]n [[author]]. Her novel ''[[The Inheritance of Loss]]'' won the [[2006 in literature|2006]] [[Man Booker Prize]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Kiran Desai|url=http://www.themanbookerprize.com/people/kiran-desai|work=The Man Booker Prizes|publisher=The Booker Prize Foundation|access-date=23 August 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014120110/http://themanbookerprize.com/people/kiran-desai|archive-date=14 October 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> and the [[National Book Critics Circle]] Fiction Award.<ref name="Hillel2007-09-03" /> In January 2015, [[The Economic Times]] listed her as one of 20 "most influential" global Indian women.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/global-indian-women-top-20-india-born-globally-successful-women-from-business-and-arts/articleshow/45745323.cms| title=Global Indian Women: Top 20 India-born & globally successful women from business and arts | publisher=[[The Economic Times]] | date=5 January 2015 | access-date=30 November 2017}}</ref>

==Early and personal life==
Kiran Desai is the daughter of [[Anita Desai]]. She was born in [[Delhi]], then spent the early years of her life in [[Pune]] and [[Mumbai]]. She studied at [[Cathedral and John Connon School]]. She left India at 14, and she and her mother lived in [[England]] for a year before moving to the [[United States]], where she studied creative writing at [[Bennington College]], [[Hollins University]], and [[Columbia University]].<ref name="BoldType-interview" />

==Work==
Her first novel, ''[[Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard]]'', was published in 1998 and received [[Praise|accolade]]s from such notable figures as [[Salman Rushdie]].<ref name="BookBrowse" /> It won the [[Betty Trask Award]],<ref name="societyofauthors" /> a prize given by the [[Society of Authors]] for best new novels by [[Citizenship|citizens]] of the [[Commonwealth of Nations]] under the age of 35.<ref name="christchurch-lib" />

Her second book, ''[[The Inheritance of Loss]],'' (2006) was widely praised by [[critic]]s throughout [[Asia]], Europe and the United States. It won the 2006 [[Man Booker Prize]], as well as the 2006 [[National Book Critics Circle]] Fiction Award.<ref name="Hillel2007-09-03" />

In August 2008, Desai was a guest on ''[[Private Passions]]'', the biographical music discussion programme hosted by [[Michael Berkeley]] on [[BBC Radio 3]].<ref name="privatepassions" /> In May 2007 she was the featured author at the inaugural Asia House Festival of Cold Literature.

She was awarded a 2013 [[Berlin Prize]] Fellowship at the [[American Academy in Berlin]].

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book
| title = [[Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard]]
| publisher = Faber and Faber
| year = 1998
| isbn = 0-571-19336-6
}}
* {{cite book
| title = [[The Inheritance of Loss]]
| publisher = Hamish Hamilton Ltd
| year = 2006
| isbn = 0-241-14348-9
}}

==See also==
* [[Desai]]
* [[Indian English literature]]

==References==
{{reflist
| refs =

<ref name="BoldType-interview">
{{cite web
| title = Bold Type: Interview with Kiran Desai
| publisher = Random House
| access-date = 2011-06-14
| url = http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0599/desai/interview.html
}}
</ref>

<ref name="BookBrowse">
{{cite web
| title = Hullabaloo In The Guava Orchard
| publisher = BookBrowse
| access-date = 2011-06-14
| url = http://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm?book_number=317
}}
</ref>

<ref name="societyofauthors">
{{cite web
|title=Society of Authors — Prizes, Grants and Awards
|publisher=Society of Authors
|access-date=2011-06-14
|url=http://www.societyofauthors.net/soa/page_id_sub.php4?parentid=7&pid=52&par_nm=Prizes,%20grants%20and%20awards
|archive-date=11 February 2007
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070211171127/http://www.societyofauthors.net/soa/page_id_sub.php4?parentid=7&pid=52&par_nm=Prizes%2C%20grants%20and%20awards
|url-status=dead
}}
</ref>

<ref name="christchurch-lib">
{{cite web
| title = The Betty Trask Prize and Awards
| publisher = Christchurch City Libraries
| access-date = 2011-06-14
| url = http://library.christchurch.org.nz/LiteraryPrizes/BettyTrask/
}}
</ref>

<ref name="Hillel2007-09-03">
{{cite news
| title = Desai's 'Inheritance' Wins Book Critics Circle Award
| last = Italie
| first = Hillel
| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/08/AR2007030802042.html
| newspaper = [[The Washington Post]]
| date = 2007-03-09
| access-date = 2013-08-23
}}
</ref>

<ref name="privatepassions">
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cwzgx BBC – Radio 3 – Private Passions]
</ref>

}}

==External links==
{{commons category|Kiran Desai}}
{{wikiquote}}
* [http://niralimagazine.com/2006/12/legacies-loss-literature/ Legacies, Loss and Literature], ''Nirali Magazine'', December 2006
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060526161904/http://www.sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Desai+Kiran SAWNET biography]
* [http://in.rediff.com/news/2006/jan/30inter1.htm Rediff interview]
* [http://jaiarjun.blogspot.com/2007/02/lunch-with-kiran-desai.html Lunch with Kiran Desai]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0599/desai/interview.html Bold Type: Interview with Kiran Desai]
* [http://www.thecommentary.ca/ontheline/20071105b.html Kiran Desai interview with THECOMMENTARY.CA October 2007]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304101001/http://www.americanacademy.de/home/person/kiran-desai Kiran Desai at the American Academy Berlin as Holtzbrinck Fellow]

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