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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 761,445 page views. Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Kiran Desai is the 6,168th most popular writer (down from 5,564th in 2019), the 906th most popular biography from India (down from 824th in 2019) and the 110th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 760k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 35.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kiran Desai ranks 6,168 out of 5,755. Before her are John Mortimer, Jenni Haukio, Lauren Kate, Ishmael Reed, Petr Zelenka, and Olga Slavnikova. After her are Sara Shepard, Meghan McCain, Arabella Kiesbauer, Alan Dundes, Hanne Ørstavik, and Giorgio A. Tsoukalos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Kiran Desai ranks 558. Before her are Aditya Chopra, Mikel Lasa, Robert Reichel, Mona Grudt, Màxim Huerta, and Beat Zberg. After her are Nick Van Exel, Artūras Karnišovas, Gülse Birsel, Will Hunt, Sarah McLeod, and Jiří Šlégr.

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In India

Among people born in India, Kiran Desai ranks 906 out of 1,493. Before her are Mehboob Khan (1907), Gulshan Kumar (1956), Rajkumar Hirani (1962), Aditya Chopra (1971), Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (1953), and Brahmanandam (1956). After her are Uma Bharti (1959), Raghuram Rajan (1963), Sunil Chhetri (1984), Usha Uthup (1947), Sonu Sood (1973), and Soumya Swaminathan (1959).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Kiran Desai ranks 110. Before her are Nayantara Sahgal (1927), Rahat Indori (1950), Rohinton Mistry (1952), Buddhadeb Dasgupta (1944), Saroo Brierley (1981), and Raja Rao (1908). After her are Sarojini Sahoo (1956), Rupi Kaur (1992), Shobhaa De (1948), Aravind Adiga (1974), Sushmita Banerjee (1964), and Ramachandra Guha (1958).

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