Kiran Desai (edit name/settings)

Her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published in 1998 and received accolades from such notable figures as Salman Rushdie.<4> It went on to win the Betty Trask Award,<5> a prize given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age of 35.<6>
Her second book, The Inheritance of Loss, (2006) has been widely praised by critics throughout Asia, Europe and the United States and won the 2006 Man Booker Prize<1> as well as the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.<7><citation needed>
In September 2007 she was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme hosted by Michael Berkeley on BBC Radio 3.<8><citation needed> In May 2007 she was the featured author at the inaugural Asia House Festival of Asian Literature.