Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971 and grew up there before moving to England, aged fourteen years. She was educated in India, England and the US. Her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998) won a 1998 Betty Trask Award, and her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss (2006), set in the mid 1980s in a Himalayan village, won the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

 Books

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, 1998

The Inheritance of Loss, 2006

Prizes and awards

1998   Betty Trask Award   Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

2006   Man Booker Prize for Fiction   The Inheritance of Loss

2007   British Book Awards Decibel Writer of the Year   (shortlist)   The Inheritance of Loss

2007   Kiryiama Pacific Rim Book Prize   (shortlist)   The Inheritance of Loss

2007   National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (USA)   The Inheritance of Loss

2007   Orange Prize for Fiction   (shortlist)   The Inheritance of Loss