No.9 Kiran Desai

Introduction

Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971 and moved to the USA with her family. Her mother, Anita Desai, is also a famous writer and was nominated for the Booker Prize. She studied creative writing at Bennington College, Hollins University and Columbia University. Her books were under literary attention since her debut book in 1998. She won Booker Prize in 2006.

Selected Works

• Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, 1998
• The Inheritance of Loss, 2006

Recognition&Awards

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard won the Betty Trask Award.

Her second book, The Inheritance of Love, won the 2006 Man Booker Prize as well as the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.

Influences

Desai is not a productive writer, but each one of her books has been of high quality and received widely recognitions. Her books are set both in India and in the US, in which she expressed her love to her home country. She tries to discuss the meaning of living in the west as an immigrant from the east, the western influence on immigrants as well as how the great changing between the two parts of the world changes one’s way of thinking.(Wikipedia)