Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai’s first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published in 1998 and received the Betty Trask award the same year. Her second book, The Inheritance of Loss, was released in 2006, and was awarded the Man Booker Prize, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. In 2007 the novel was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Kiryiama Pacific Rim Book Prize.