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Two decades later, Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai returns

Two decades later, Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai returns

Update: 2025-10-25
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With only her second novel The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai won the 2006 Booker Prize, the leading literary prize in the global Anglosphere, becoming - at the time - the youngest person ever to do so. She was thirty-five. Then: silence. 19 years of it, before another novel emerged - this year. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny. It, too, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Will Desai win it again?

 

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Two decades later, Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai returns

Two decades later, Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai returns