Booker Prize winner: Kiran Desai

Congratulations to the winner of the British Commonwealth's largest literary prize, the Booker, Kiran Desai. Desai is a 35-year-old MFA student at Columbia and the daughter of author Anita Desai.

Links:

Interview (pre-Booker); another from 1999 on publication of her first novel, "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard."

NYT review of Desai's prize-winning novel "The Inheritance of Loss"

Update: The updated photo of Desai is from the Guardian profile published 13 Oct.