WRITER

Kiran Desai

1971 - Today

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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 more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kiran Desai has received more than 824,056 page views. Her biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Kiran Desai is the 6,901st most popular writer (down from 6,144th in 2019), the 1,136th most popular biography from India (down from 902nd in 2019) and the 133rd most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 820k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kiran Desai ranks 6,901 out of 7,302. Before her are Raja Rao, Benjamin Jowett, Sayed Kashua, Sandi Toksvig, Abdourahman Waberi, and Richard Flanagan. After her are Ishmael Reed, Shobhaa De, Robert B. Spencer, François Bégaudeau, Alice Dunbar Nelson, and Paul Attanasio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Kiran Desai ranks 650. Before her are Leisha Hailey, Gustavo Méndez, Masashi Hamauzu, Joel Casamayor, Pia Olsen Dyhr, and Raül Romeva. After her are Bobby Lee, François Bégaudeau, Noel Hogan, Manuel Beltrán, Eddie Jones, and Daniel Sunjata.

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In India

Among people born in India, Kiran Desai ranks 1,136 out of 1,861. Before her are Richard Allen (1902), Raja Rao (1908), Nawazuddin Siddiqui (1974), Pawan Kumar Chamling (1950), Deepti Naval (1952), and Vijaya Mehta (1934). After her are Shobhaa De (1948), Asaduddin Owaisi (1969), Lillete Dubey (1953), Salabat Jung (1718), Sadashiv Amrapurkar (1950), and Tina Ambani (1957).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Kiran Desai ranks 133. Before her are Ali Sardar Jafri (1913), Nayantara Sahgal (1927), Bharati Mukherjee (1940), Toru Dutt (1856), Krishna Hutheesing (1907), and Raja Rao (1908). After her are Shobhaa De (1948), Kamala Markandaya (1924), Rupi Kaur (1992), Ram Swarup (1920), Sarojini Sahoo (1956), and Aravind Adiga (1974).

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