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Kiran Desai is an Indian author known for her novels that explore themes of identity, displacement, and family dynamics within the Indian diaspora and contemporary Indian society. Her work has gained international recognition and contributes significantly to contemporary literature by giving voice to Indian perspectives and experiences on the global literary stage.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kiran
- Family name
- Desai
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- India
- Place of birth
- New Delhi
- Mother
- Anita Desai
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Notable work
- The Inheritance of Loss
- Image
- Kiran Desai 2015.jpg
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- Commons category
- Kiran Desai
- date of birth
- 1971-09-03
- writing language
- English language
- start of work period
- 1998-00-00
- nominated for
- Booker Prize
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Encyclopedic overview
Kiran Desai is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. In 2015, The Economic Times named her one of 20 most influential global Indian women.
Early life and education
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