Kiran Desai was born in 1971 in Chandigarh, India and spent her early years in Pune and Mumbai. She is the daughter of renowned author Anita Desai. Desai studied in India and later moved to England and the United States to continue her education. Her first novel "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard" was published in 1998 and received praise from Salman Rushdie. Her second novel "The Inheritance of Loss" won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.

1. By : Prakruti
Bhatt

2. Early Life
 Kiran Desai was born on 3rd September
1971in Chandigarh and spent the early
years of her life in Pune and Mumbai. She
is the daughter of Anita Desai, herself
short listed for the Booker Prize on three
occasions. She studied in the Cathedral
and John Connon school. She left India at
14 and she and her mother then lived in
England for a year and then moved to
United States where she studied creative
writing at Bennington College, Hollins

3.  Kiran Desai’s first novel Hullabaloo in guava
orchard was published in 1998 and received
accolades from such notable features as Salman
Rushdie. It won the Betty Trask Award, a prize
given by the society of authors for the best new
novels by the citizens of the common wealth of
nations under the age 35. Her second book The
Inheritance of Loss (2006) was widely praised
by critics throughout Asia, Europe and the United
States. It won the 2006 Man Booker Prize as well
as the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Fiction
Award. In August 2008 she was a guest on
Private Passions, the biographical music
discussion programme hosted by Michael
Berkeley on BBC radio 3. In May 2007 she was
the featured author at the inaugural Asia House