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Kiran Desai
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1971– · Indian author

Also known as: Киран Десаи, كيران ديساي, キラン・デサイ, 基兰·德塞, Десаи Киран

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Known works

  • The inheritance of loss
  • WinQSB version 2.0
  • Hullabaloo in the guava orchard
  • The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947-1997
  • Scribner's best of the fiction workshops, 1998