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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006 winner

Kiran Desai is the winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The Inheritance of Loss, published by Hamish Hamilton. The Indian-born writer has a strong family tie with the prize as her mother Anita Desai has been shortlisted three times since 1980 but has never won. This year, however, her daughter, Kiran, has won the acclaimed literary prize

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