Author

Books by Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai was born in Delhi in 1971 and grew up in India, England, and the United States. Her debut novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, appeared in 1998. The Inheritance of Loss, published in 2006, won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, making Desai the youngest woman to win the Booker at the time. Her mother, Anita Desai, is also a celebrated novelist and has been shortlisted for the Booker three times. Desai lives in New York.