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Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize [ 1 ] and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. [ 2 ] In January 2015, The Economic Times listed her as one of 20 "most influential" global Indian women.
The 2006 Man Booker Prize was awarded at a ceremony on 10 October 2006. The prize was awarded to Kiran Desai for The Inheritance of Loss. Judges ...
The Inheritance of Loss is the second novel by Indian author Kiran Desai.It was first published in 2006.It won a number of awards, including the Booker Prize for that year, the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award in 2007, [1] and the 2006 Vodafone Crossword Book Award.
The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, it was opened for the first time to any work ...
Three previous judges of the award, Malcolm Bradbury, David Holloway and W. L. Webb, met and chose Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, the 1981 winner, as "the best novel out of all the winners". [109] In 2006, the Man Booker Prize set up a "Best of Beryl" prize, for the author Beryl Bainbridge, who had been nominated five times and yet ...
Kiran Desai, winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize Siddhartha Mukherjee, physician and 2011 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Abraham Verghese, doctor and author; wrote In My Own Country and My Tennis Partner; Agha Shahid Ali, poet; Aimee Nezhukumatathil, poet; Alka Joshi, author
Published in March 2008, the book won the Booker Prize later that year. [18] [19] He is the fourth Indian-born author to win the prize, after Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, and Kiran Desai. [20] Propelled mainly by the Booker Prize win, The White Tiger ' s Indian hardcover edition sold more than 200,000 copies. [21] The book received critical ...
The 2024 Booker Prize is a literary award worth £50,000 given for the best English-language novel published between 1 October 2023 and 30 September 2024 in either the United Kingdom or Ireland. The winner, Samantha Harvey for her sci-fi novel Orbital , was announced on 12 November 2024 at Old Billingsgate in London.