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“Inheritance” Receives Another Literary Award
9-Mar-2007
Written by: Aalap Patel
Kiran Desai wins National Book Critics Circle award.
Kiran Desai, daughter of Indian novelist and MIT professor, Anita Desai, receives the 2007 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction, for her novel The Inheritance of Loss. The novel deals with post-colonialism, Nepalese insurgency, and the immigrant experience in New York.
Kiran has also won the 2006 Booker prize for Inheritance, a prize on which her mother has been short listed three times. Her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was released to praise in 1999.
A New York City native, Ms. Desai says, “To be claimed by the place in which you live means so much.” According to Forbes.com, Kiran recited “a poem by Jorge Luis Borges, ‘The Boast of Quietness,’ which reads, in part, ‘More silent than my shadow, I pass through the loftily covetous multitude.’”
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