Kirn desai of India is the youngest women to win the man booker prize for friction,for the second novel 'The inheritance of loss'.The prize carries a cash component of $50,000.The theme of the novel is about globalization and moulti-cultural identities.She is the third Indian to win the booker prize after salman Rushdie and arundathi roy.Incidentally,Kiran's mother ,Anita desai is also a wel known writer,who had been short-listed on three times but never managed to win.The chairman of the jury,Hermionne lee hailed the work as a "a magnificiant novel of breadth and wisdom".kiran desai's first novel was 'hullabaloo in the Guava orchard'(1998).Monday, July 7, 2008
Kiran Desai
Kirn desai of India is the youngest women to win the man booker prize for friction,for the second novel 'The inheritance of loss'.The prize carries a cash component of $50,000.The theme of the novel is about globalization and moulti-cultural identities.She is the third Indian to win the booker prize after salman Rushdie and arundathi roy.Incidentally,Kiran's mother ,Anita desai is also a wel known writer,who had been short-listed on three times but never managed to win.The chairman of the jury,Hermionne lee hailed the work as a "a magnificiant novel of breadth and wisdom".kiran desai's first novel was 'hullabaloo in the Guava orchard'(1998).
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