And the Booker Prize winner is...!
October 11th 2006 06:41
Well, it looks like Kate Grenville didn't win. Oh well. Instead, the prize went to Kiran Desai, for her book 'The Inheritance of Loss', an epic novel about family and globalisation, telling parallel and connected stories in New York and the Himilayas.
At 35, Desai is the youngest woman to ever win a Booker prize. Her mother, Anita Desai, is also a well-respected novelist who has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times (but has never won).
'The Inheritance of Loss' is Desai's second novel. It took her eight years to write. Looks like it paid off! Funnily enough, a lot of it was written while Desai was attending university where she was doing a creative writing course... I hope they gave her good marks, otherwise the esteemed professors of Columbia University might be feeling a bit silly at the moment.
Desai takes home $93 000 as part of her prize.
Her books joins a very exclusive canon of critically lauded books that will probably remain in print for a very long time. Other past recent winners include... John Banville's 'The Sea' (2005), 'Vernon God Little' by DBD Pierre (2003), 'The Life of Pi' by Yann Martel (2002), Margaret Attwood's 'The Blind Assassin' (2000) and 'The God of Small Things' (1997) by Arundhati Roy, just to mention a few.
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