Kiran Desai: Youngest Woman to Win Man Booker Prize

India has once again produce literary brilliant in the name of Kiran Desai. Born on 3 December 1971 to Anita Desai, Kiran Desai inherits the literary talent from her mother. Her win in this year's competition has made her the youngest ever woman to win the pretigious Man Booker Prize. Notable literary figures like Briton P H Newby, South African Nobel laureate J M Coetzee, Australian Peter Carey as well as Iris Murdoch, V S Naipaul and Salman Rushdie have won this literary award once or twice.

Kiran Desai's winning novel, The Inheritance of Loss, has been described as "a radiant, funny, moving familiy saga with maginificent humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness." It is also described as "as the best, sweetest, most delightful novel".

No wonder that the novel won this year's Man Booker Prize.

I wonder, when will an Indonesian writer ever win in this competition, the Man Booker International? Can Indonesia produce literary briliants India have done over the years? Would there be any other Pramoedya Ananta Toer in Indonesia?

Just a reminder, there were Salman Rushie, Arundhati Roy and now there is Kiran Desai, all from India, who have this prestigious literary competition.

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