Noted Indian novelist Anita Desai's daughter Kiran Desai has created history by becoming the youngest woman novelist to bag this year's Man Booker Prize, the UK's coveted literary honor, for her cross-culture novel 'The Inheritance of Loss'.The 35-year-old gets a cash prize of US$93,000, along with the citation. Desai's mother Anita had been nominated for the Booker Prize three times, but was left behind by other authors. The two are the first ever mother-daughter team to be nominated for the prestigious award.
Dedicating the honor to her mother, Kiran Desai said: “To my mother I owe a debt so profound. This book feels as much hers as it does mine. It was written in her company and in her wisdom and kindness. I really owe her this book so enormously.
"The remarkable thing about Kiran Desai is that she is aware of her Anglo-Indian inheritance -- of [V.S.] Naipaul and [R.K.] Narayan and [Salman] Rushdie -- but she does something pioneering," said Hermione Lee, chairman of the judges.
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