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 803,291 page views. Her biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Kiran Desai is the 6,899th most popular writer (down from 6,144th in 2019), the 1,135th most popular biography from India (down from 902nd in 2019) and the 133rd most popular Indian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 800k

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  • 36.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The inheritance of loss
Judges, Retirement, Psychological fiction
In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judgeʼs cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another. Kiran Desaiʼs brilliant novel, published to huge acclaim, is a story of joy and despair. Her characters face numerous choices that majestically illuminate the consequences of colonialism as it collides with the modern world. Winner of 2006 Man Booker Prize.
2006
Scribner's best of the fiction workshops, 1998
Canadian Short stories, American Short stories, American fiction
An anthology of fiction from college writing programs. In Richard Elson's The Shooting, a boy accidentally kills a friend, while Julie Otsuka's Evacuation Order No. 19 describes the preparations of a Japanese-American family for the move to a World War II internment camp.
1998
Visual Mathematics Series
2011
Hullabaloo in the guava orchard
Fiction, India, Sadhus
1998
Anschauen und Denken, Reden und Schreiben
Ancient Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, History
2007

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kiran Desai ranks 6,899 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 1,135 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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