Desai wins Man Booker

10 October 2006 Books+Publishing

The Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton) by Indian-born writer Kiran Desai has won the 2006 Man Booker Prize, announced in the UK this morning. Desai, whose mother Anita Desai has been shortlisted for the same prize three times since 1980, is the youngest woman ever to have won the prize,...