Kiran Desai Wins Man Booker Prize
The Guardian reports (thx Book Blog) that Indian-born novelist Kiran Desai has won the Man Booker Prize for her novel, The Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton). She is youngest women to win the prize, which includes 50,000 cash prize.
At her first attempt Desai, 35, not only became the youngest woman to win but achieved a victory which repeatedly eluded her mother. The esteemed Indian novelist Anita Desai - to whom The Inheritance of Loss is dedicated - has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker.You can read more about Kiran Desai here on the Man Booker Prize website.
On hearing the result Desai said: "The debt I owe to my mother is so profound that I feel the book is hers as much as mine. It was written in her company and in her wisdom and kindness."
This year's head judge, Hermione Lee, left no doubt that it was "the strength of the book's humanity" which gave it the edge after a long and passionate debate among the judges. "It is a magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness," Professor Lee said. "Her mother will be proud of her."
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Posted on October 16, 2006
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