Kiran Desai was born in Chandigarh and spent her childhood in Pune and Mumbai where she went to the Cathedral and John Connon School. When she was about 8 or 9, the Desais moved to Delhi. She moved to England at the age of 14. One year later, the family relocated to the US, where Desai completed her schooling in the state of Massachusetts. She later attended Bennington College, Hollins University, and then Columbia University, where she took two years off to write her first book, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard.
Awards and recognition
Her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published in 1998 and received accolades from such notable figures as Salman Rushdie.It went on to win the Betty Trask Award,a prize given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age of 35.
Her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published in 1998 and received accolades from such notable figures as Salman Rushdie.It went on to win the Betty Trask Award,a prize given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age of 35.
Her second book, The Inheritance of Loss, (2006) has been widely praised by critics throughout Asia, Europe and the United States and won the 2006 Man Booker Prize as well as the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.
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