Kiran Desai bags US literary award
Friday, 09 March 2007, 18:30 IST
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New York: India born novelist Kiran Desai has bagged the National Book Critics Circle fiction award for her bestseller "The Inheritance of Loss". Desai got the award at a glittering ceremony here on Thursday."The Inheritance of Loss" has already won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for literary excellence and is among the finalists for the Kiriyama Prize. "To be claimed by the place in which you live means so much," Desai, who lives in New York, was quoted as saying by Canada.com.The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, has nearly 500 members. There are no cash prizes, but a great deal of prestige is attached to the award. Desai was born in New Delhi and is the daughter of author Anita Desai. She spent her childhood in India before moving to England at the age of 14. A year later, the family relocated to the US, where Desai completed her schooling in Massachusetts. She later attended Bennington College, Hollins University and then Columbia University, where she took two years off to write her first book "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard".
Source: IANS
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