ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Kiran Desai is the daughter of novelist Anita Desai .

Detailed explanation-2: -Her daughter Kiran Desai won the Booker Prize for the novel The Inheritance of Loss (2006).

Detailed explanation-3: -The first Indian to win the Booker Prize was the author and activist Arundhati Roy. Her first novel ‘God of Small Things’ was also the best-selling book by a non-expat Indian novelist. She started writing the book in 1992 and completed it four years later, in 1996.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1984, she published In Custody – about an Urdu poet in his declining days – which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ans. In the list of booker prize winners published earlier, we can see that there are 8 Indians and they are: V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai, Aravind Adiga, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hari Kunzru and Rupi Kaur.