Kiran Desai

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

Kiran Desai

Life

Kiran Desai spent her childhood in India and moved to England with her family at the age of 14, and then to the United States a year later, where she completed her schooling in Massachusetts .

In 1998 she published her first book Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (German The Guru in guava tree ), which, among others, Salman Rushdie was praised 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 ago, won. Her second novel The Inheritance of Loss (2006, German heiress of the lost land ) received critical acclaim in Asia, Europe and the USA and won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2006 .

Kiran Desai is the daughter of the Indian author Anita Desai . Her partner is the Turkish Nobel Prize laureate Orhan Pamuk .

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

Works

• The Guru in the Guavenbaum , Munich: Blessing 1998, ISBN 3-89667-060-3
• Heiress of the Lost Land , Berlin: Berlin Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-8270-0683-X

Web links

Commons : Kiran Desai  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Kiran Desai in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Kiran Desai at perlentaucher.de
• Short biography and list of works on the website of the British Council (English)
• SAWNET biography (English)
• Random House interview (English)
• Rediff Interview (English)
• "I don't work, I write" Tobias Wenzel in conversation with Kiran Desai at the DLF on January 2nd, 2008
• Kiran Desai as a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kiran Desai in the Hindustan Times, October 11, 2006
2. ↑ Book review of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard at Book Browse
3. ^ Society of Authors - Prizes, Grants and Awards ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.