Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai (Hindi: किरण देसाई, Kiran Desai, born September 3, 1971 in New Delhi ) is an Indian author with permanent residence in the United States.

Life

Kiran Desai spent her childhood in India and then went at the age of 14 years with her family to England a year later in the USA, where she finished her schooling in Massachusetts.

In 1998, she published her first book, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard ( German The Guru in the guava tree ), which was praised among others by Salman Rushdie and the Betty Trask Award, an award from the Society of Authors for the best novel of a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations under 35 years, won. Her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss (2006, German Inheritance of Loss ) received critical acclaim throughout Asia, Europe and the U.S. and won the 2006 prestigious Booker Prize.

Kiran Desai is the daughter of Indian writer Anita Desai. Your significant other is the Turkish Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk.

Desai received the Holtzbrinck Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin and is a Fellow of the Academy in the fall of 2013.

Works

• The Guru in the guava tree, Munich: Blessing 1998, ISBN 3-89667-060-3
• The Inheritance of Loss, Berlin: Berlin Verlag 2006, ISBN 3- 8270-0683 -X