Kiran Desai

About

The author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The Inheritance of Loss, she also wrote Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. She received a Berlin Prize Fellowship in 2013.

Before Fame

When she was fourteen years old, she moved from India to England with her mother.

Trivia

She made her writing debut with the 1998 novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard.

Family Life

She became romantically linked to fellow writer, Orhan Pamuk, in 2010.

Associated With

Her first novel earned high praise from author Salman Rushdie.