Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai was born in New Delhi but moved to the US to study creative writing at Bennington College, Hollins University and Columbia University. Her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, published in 1998, received accolades from notable figures including Salman Rushdie. The novel won the Betty Trask Award, a prize awarded by the Society of Authors, for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age of 35. Her next novel, The Inheritance of Loss, won the 2006 Man Booker prize as well as the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.
Kiran is also a playwright, film and drama critic and has written screenplays including Black Tulip (2002), The G-Gang (2001), The Perfect Circle (1997) and The Competition (1991).
DGA represents Kiran's UK, Australian and Indian rights on behalf of Inkwell Management in the US.
Titles
The Inheritance of Loss (Penguin, 2006)
Hullaballoo in the Guava Orchard (Faber and Faber, 1998)