Kiran Desai

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 Circle Fiction Award.

Kiran Desai in April 2007

Quotes

• I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.
  • an interview with kiran desai, Random House

• I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere
  • Interview (12 October 2006), The Guardian

• I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.
  • Kiran Desai Talk Asia interview (April 24, 2007), CNN

• New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.
  • "I am envious of writers who are in India" (October 30, 2006), Interview by Nabanita Sircar, India Today

• The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.
  • "I am envious of writers who are in India" (October 30, 2006), Interview by Nabanita Sircar, India Today

• In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.
  • Kiran Desai on the Costs Of Literary Celebrity (April 21, 2007) by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, The Wall Street Journal

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Kiran Desai on Wikipedia
• Media related to Kiran Desai on Wikimedia Commons