Prestigious
Oct 11 2006, Tina

Kiran Desai has been awarded the prestigious Man Booker Prize for her novel ‘The Inheritance of Loss’.

She won £50,000 prize after being chosen by a panel of judges. She was among the six shortlisted contenders picked up by the judges and finally...

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