Kiran Desai Biography

Anita Desai's daughter Desai, who was nominated for the Booker Prize three times. She was born in Chandigarh and spent her childhood Mumbai and Pune. She attended the Chapel and the John Connon School. She left India when she was 14 years old, so she and her mom spent a year in England before moving to the United States, where she studied creative writing at Bennington College, Columbia University, and Hollins University. "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard," her first novel, was published in 1998 and received praise from famous people like Salman Rushdie. It was awarded the Betty Trask Award, granted by the Society of Authors to the greatest debut book by a Commonwealth of Nations citizen below the age of thirty-wife. Her 2nd book, "The Inheritance of Loss," received widespread praise from critics in Asia, Europe, and the United States. It was awarded both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award in 2006. Desai appeared on "Private Passions," a biographical music discussion program hosted by Michael Berkeley on BBC Radio 3 in August 2008. She was the featured writer at the first Asia House Festival of Cold Literature in 2007. She received a Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin in 2013.

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