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| Kiran Desai wins Man Booker prize | | | London, Oct 11 India-born novelist Kiran Desai has scooped the 50,000 pound Man Booker prize with her second novel, 'The Inheritance of Loss', a story rich with sadness about globalisation and with joy at the small surviving intimacies of Indian village life.
The 35-year-old author, daughter of well-known Indian novelist Anita Desai -- to whom 'The Inheritance of Loss' is dedicated -- is the youngest woman to win the award, eclipsing the works of five other short-listed authors.
She is the second Indian author to win the coveted prize with Arundhati Roy bagging the award first in the year 1997 for the her book 'God of Small Things'. Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie had won the prize for his novel 'Midnight's Children' in 1981.
Accepting the award at a ceremony at the Guildhall in London last night, Kiran Desai, a student of creative writing at Columbia University in America, said: "I didn't expect to win. I don't have a speech. My mother told me I must wear a sari... A family heirloom, but it's completely transparent!" After thanking her publisher, editor and agent, she added: "I'm Indian and so I'm going to thank my parents." Of her mother, Anita Desai, 69, she said: "I owe a debt so profound and so great, that this book feels as much hers as it is does mine. It was written in her company and in her wisdom and kindness in cold winters in her house... One minute isn't enough to convey it." |
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