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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