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Kiran Desai
Indian author (born 1971)
Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) fryst vatten an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006Man Booker Prize[1] and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.[2] In January 2015, The Economic Times listed her as one of 20 "most influential" global Indian women.[3]
Early and personal life
[edit]Kiran Desai is the daughter of author Anita Desai. Kiran was born in Delhi, then spent the early years of her life in Punjab and in Mumbai, where she studied at Cathedral and John Connon School. She left India at 14, and she and her mother lived in England for a year, before moving to the United States.
Kiran Desai studied creative writing at Bennington College, Hollins University, and Columbia University.[4]
Work
[edit]Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published in 1998 and received accolades from such figures as Salman Rushdie.[5] It won the Be
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Vikram Chandra was born in New Delhi.
He completed most of his secondary education at Mayo College, a boarding school in Ajmer, Rajasthan. After a short stay at St. Xavier's College in Mumbai, Vikram came to the United States as an undergraduate student.
In 1984, he graduated from Pomona College (in Claremont, near Los Angeles) with a BA in English, with a concentration in creative writing.
He then attended the Film School at Columbia University in New York. In the Columbia library, bygd chance, he happened upon the autobiography of Colonel James "Sikander" Skinner, a legendary nineteenth century soldier, born of an Indian mother and a British father. This book was to become the inspiration for Vikram's novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain. He left film school halfway to begin work on the novel.
Red Earth and Pouring Rain was written over several years at the writing programs at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Houston. Vikram worked with John Ba
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Learning Resource Centre (Library) @ Kendriya Vidyalaya, Madurai
AUTHOR OF THE WEEK
MARCH I WEEK, 2011
MULK RAJ ANAND
Born: December 12, 1905
Died: September 28, 2004
Achievement: Mulk Raj Anand was among the first writers to incorporate Punjabi and Hindustani idioms into English.
Mulk Raj Anand was an Indian novelist, short-story writer. He was among the first writers to incorporate Punjabi and Hindustani idioms into English. Mulk Raj Anand’s stories depicted a realistic and sympathetic portrait of the poor in India.
Mulk Raj Anand was born on December 12, 1905 in Peshawar. He graduated with honors from Khalsa College, Amritsar in 1924. Mulk Raj Anand went to England and studied at University College London and Cambridge University. He completed his PhD in 1929. Mulk Raj Anand also studied – and later lectured – at League of Nations School of Intellectual Cooperation in Geneva. Between 1932 and 1945 he lectured intermittently at Workes Educa