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Kiran Desai
Indian writer Kiran Desai won Britain's prestigious Man Booker Prize yesterday for "The Inheritance of Loss." Share info about Kiran Desai or opinions about the author's work.
Podcast at the Guardian Book Club: John Mullan speaks to Kiran Desai about her writing process for her 2006 Booker Prize winning novel The Inheritance of Loss.
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By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) Hilary Mantel, the author of “Wolf Hall” which won the Man Booker prize for 2009, feels “there is always a danger with historical fiction that it may fall short as both literature and history”.
“So, when I took on this project I knew that it was going to be [...]
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From thaindian.com
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"The judging panel for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction is announced today, Wednesday 9 December 2009. The judges are Rosie Blau, Literary Editor of the Financial Times; Deborah Bull, formerly a dancer, now Creative Director of the Royal Opera House as well as a writer and broadcaster; Tom Sutcliffe, journalist, broadcaster and author and Frances Wilson, biographer and critic. Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate, was announced as Chair of...
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Told with palpable anger and scant sympathy for its characters, this is a powerful novel but I confess that I struggled to really appreciate itWhen Kiran Desai's Inheritance Of Loss won the 2006 Booker Prize, a few eyebrows were raised. Although she had a famous mother (Anita Desai) who had herself been on the Booker shortlist three times, Kiran was relatively unknown. Comparatively few had read her book, and the bookies had her down at fifth...
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From guardian.co.uk
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The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, first awarded in 1969, promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year. Any full-length novel, written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland and published that year, is eligible for the prize.[...]
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