Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai is an Indian author, best known for The Inheritance of Loss, which won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Her other books include Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, a work of magical realism, and The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, a contemporary work of fiction. In 2015 The Economic Times named her one of the 20 most influential global Indian women.