Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics...
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business Anita Desai – Author; mother of author Kiran Desai Bhairavi Desai – American labor union leader Bindu Desai – Actress C. D. Desai – Banker and...
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including Booker Prize-winning novelist Kiran Desai. Her children were taken to Thul (near Alibagh) for weekends, where Desai set her novel The Village by the...
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The Inheritance of Loss (category Novels by Kiran Desai)
The Inheritance of Loss is the second novel by Indian author Kiran Desai. It was first published in 2006. It won a number of awards, including the Booker...
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1990), Nepali footballer Kiran Chetry (born 1974), American television journalist Kiran Desai (born 1971), Indian author Kiran George (born 2000), Indian...
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was awarded at a ceremony on 10 October 2006. The prize was awarded to Kiran Desai for The Inheritance of Loss. Hermione Lee (chair) Simon Armitage Candia...
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Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (category Novels by Kiran Desai)
[Amblems of transformation} Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is a novel by Kiran Desai published in 1998. It is her first book and won the top prize for the...
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and rival novelist Tibor Fischer poured scorn on Banville's victory. Kiran Desai of India won in 2006. Anne Enright's 2007 victory came about due to a...
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alumnae include sportswriter Mary Garber, 2006 Man Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai, physicist Mary K. Gaillard, Goodnight Moon author Margaret Wise Brown...
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Bhabananda Deka Nalini Prava Deka Syed Muhammad Miyan Deobandi Anita Desai Kiran Desai Purushottam Laxman Deshpande Abdul Qavi Desnavi Venu V. Desom Mukul...
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Surya Kiran (transl. Rays of the Sun) is an aerobatics demonstration team of the Indian Air Force. The Surya Kiran Aerobatic Team (SKAT) was formed in...
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winner of Prix Médicis étranger Anita Desai, novelist; shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times; mother of Kiran Desai Anju Hasan, author, of Neti,Neti...
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expedition in order to retrieve the formula. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, which won the 2006 Man Booker Prize, is set partly in Kalimpong, a hill...
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Jugmohan Purohit 2011–12: Don't Worry Chachu as Popatlal Desai 2012: Yeh Zindagi Hai Gulshan 2012: Ek Kiran Roshni Ki as P.K. Khanna 2012–13: Alaxmi Ka Super...
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Shivani Desai (born 13 February 1986), professionally known as Rashami Desai, is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Hindi television. She is...
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and a British Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea. Her daughter Kiran Desai won the 2006 Man Booker Prize for her second novel, The Inheritance of...
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Indian-born author to win the prize, after Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, and Kiran Desai. Propelled mainly by the Booker Prize win, The White Tiger's Indian hardcover...
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Bindu (actress) (redirect from Bindu Nanubhai Desai)
Bindu Nanubhai Desai (born 17 April 1941), better known mononymously as Bindu, is a former Indian actress who was popular in the 1970s. She has acted...
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Awards Preceded by The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai National Book Critics Circle Award 2007 Succeeded by 2666 by Roberto Bolaño...
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modern love scenes, from Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles to Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss for The Carte Noire Readers. In 2011, he appeared...
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Namesake, and a professor of creative writing at Princeton University. Kiran Desai, winner of the Man Booker Prize, and is known for the well acclaimed...
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Multiple categories; see 2006 Lambda Literary Awards. Man Booker Prize: Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss. Miles Franklin Award: Roger McDonald, The Ballad...
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various radio plays including in 2009, in "The Inheritance Of Loss By Kiran Desai". As a writer, her credits include 'There's Something About Simmy', 'The...
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stars Anupam Kher, Darshan Kumar, Satish Kaushik, Smriti Kalra, Anang Desai, and Kiran Kumar in pivotal roles. It's a remake of Prakash's Malayalam film Nirnayakam...
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Branch with many prominent writers taking part, including Paul Auster, Kiran Desai, Roya Hakakian, Aasif Mandvi, and Gay Talese. People unable to attend...
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Ishiguro David Mitchell William Trevor 4 nominations Julian Barnes Anita Desai Penelope Fitzgerald Howard Jacobson Thomas Keneally Hilary Mantel Ali Smith...
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from his duties in space. In the 2006 novel The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai, Biju, an Indian immigrant in the USA finds solace in the song among...
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Prem (director) (redirect from Prem (Kiran))
Kiran Kumar (born 22 October 1976), known by his screen name Prem, is an Indian film director in Kannada cinema. Prem was born as Kiran Kumar on 22 October...
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Chetan Bhagat Bedil Dehlavi (1642–1720), poet Ghalib, Urdu/Persian poet Kiran Desai Madhur Jaffrey Meenakshi Jain Ritu Lalit Jaishree Misra Amrita Pritam...
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, Veena; P.V., Ramanathan (2012). "The Emasculated Male Servant in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss and Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger". The Journal...
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