Kiran Desai in April 2007

Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.

Quotes

• I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.
  • an interview with kiran desai, Random House

• I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere
  • Interview (12 October 2006), The Guardian

• I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.
  • Kiran Desai Talk Asia interview (April 24, 2007), CNN

• New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.
  • "I am envious of writers who are in India" (October 30, 2006), Interview by Nabanita Sircar, India Today

• The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.
  • "I am envious of writers who are in India" (October 30, 2006), Interview by Nabanita Sircar, India Today

• In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.
  • Kiran Desai on the Costs Of Literary Celebrity (April 21, 2007) by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, The Wall Street Journal

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Kiran Desai at Wikipedia
• Media related to Kiran Desai at Wikimedia Commons