Kiran Desai is an Indian novelist, born in New Delhi in 1971, the daughter of novelist Anita Desai. She lived in India until age 15, then moved with her family to England and later the United States, where she studied at Bennington College and earned MFA degrees from Hollins University and Columbia University.
Her debut novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, appeared in 1998. Her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Her third novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, was published in 2025.
