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Kiran Desai

August 2022

  • Salman Rushdie.

    Hundreds of authors to read from Salman Rushdie’s works in show of solidarity

    The ‘Stand with Salman’ event in New York mirrors a public reading of The Satanic Verses that took place after the fatwa was issued in 1989

June 2020

  • Book seller arranges his street book stall for customers in Mumbai

    10 of the best books set in India – that will take you there

    Tired of narratives that obsess over spices, colours and cows on the road? These books, all by Indian writers, paint realistic pictures of the country’s geographical, cultural and political landscapes

April 2018

  • Booker winners Peter Carey, Hilary Mantel and Kazuo Ishiguro.

    Man Booker festival: Peter Carey, Kazuo Ishiguro and Hilary Mantel among lineup

    ‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ gathering of winners in London in July will include rare joint appearance from mother-daughter honorees Anita and Kiran Desai

September 2014

  • Kiran Desai … 'I lament having to give up Indian clothing now that I live in the west.'

    Kiran Desai: 'You look bad if you go to India in western clothes'

    The Booker-prize winner talks to Heidi Julavits about saris, giving away jewellery and what's wrong with New York

November 2011

  • Anita Desai and her daughter, Kiran Desai

    In conversation: Kiran Desai meets Anita Desai

    'As a child I must have been aware of all these vanished pasts and landscapes'

September 2011

  • John Makinson and Tom Weldon

    Books power 100
    John Makinson and Tom Weldon | No 13

    The head honchos at Penguin Group have accumulated a healthy list, including Jamie Oliver and John le Carré

November 2009

  • Kiran Desai talks with John Mullan at The Guardian book club

    Book club
    Guardian Book Club: Kiran Desai

  • Kiran Desai talks with John Mullan at the Guardian book club

    Book club
    Guardian book club: week three

  • Kiran Desai talks with John Mullan at The Guardian book club

    Book club
    The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

  • Kiran Desai

    Books blog
    Guardian book club: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

October 2009

  • Kiran Desai talks with John Mullan at The Guardian book club

    Book club
    Guardian book club: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

    Guardian book club: John Mullan on The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

August 2007

  • Kirian Desai

    A year at the top

    Kiran Desai talks about what winning 2006's Booker prize has meant to her.

May 2007

  • Books blog
    Haycast 02: Gordon Brown, Kiran Desai and David Mitchell

  • The Guardian Books podcast
    Haycast 02: 27.05.2007

  • House of silence

  • Vidal salon

February 2007

  • People

    Riazat Butt
    Riazat Butt: Giles Foden | Ruth Scurr | Imogen Stubbs | Kiran Desai | Howard Davies | Forest Whitaker | Idi Amin | Britney Spears | Kevin Federline | Justin Timberlake | Jade Goody | Jack Dee | Frank Skinner | Dara O'Braian | Shilpa Shetty | Margaret Thatcher | Leigh Bowery | Brian Eno | Wolfgang Tillmans | Jon Savage | Derek Jarman | Julian Opie

November 2006

  • Kiran Desai, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2006,

    Book-burning threat over town's portrayal in Booker-winning novel

    When she won the Booker prize, Kiran Desai lifted the town of Kalimpong into the glare of the media spotlight. But few in the town are now thanking her for setting her novel, The Inheritance of Loss, there. Internet forums hum with indignation about the book's "condescending statements", while others threaten public book-burnings.

October 2006

  • Books blog
    Hullabaloo in the Indian literary world

  • A passage from India

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