Bio
Kiran Desai is the Booker Prize winning author of The Inheritance of Loss and Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Among her other honors are a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, a fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin and a Columbia University Medal of Excellence. Her new novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, will be published in September 2025.
Photo credit: Annette Hornischer.