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. Read full biography of Kiran Desai →
The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.
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... →
If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India... →
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.
When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.
When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs... →
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.
I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be part of it.
We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.
I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write a cookbook' or, 'I... →
I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.
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.