Kiran Desai wins Man Booker
12 Oct 2006
The Indian-born novelist Kiran Desai triumphed last night by winning the £50,000 Man Booker prize with her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, a story replete with sadness over globalisation and…
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The Indian-born novelist Kiran Desai triumphed last night by winning the £50,000 Man Booker prize with her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, a story replete with sadness over globalisation and with pleasure at the surviving intimacies of Indian village life.
She beat the bookies, who put her fifth out of six in the award shortlist, rating her as a 5/1 outsider...
Kiran Desai wins Man Booker