Two decades later, Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai returns
The Politics Show25 Loka 2025

Two decades later, Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai returns

The youngest winner of the Booker Prize fell silent. Now she's back with a new novel.


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With only her second novel The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai won the 2006 Booker Prize, the leading literary prize in the global Anglosphere, becoming - at the time - the youngest person ever to do so. She was thirty-five. Then: silence. 19 years of it, before another novel emerged - this year. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny.


Desai joins Tanjil Rashid on The New Society to discuss her latest novel, and why it was 19 years in the making.



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