Kiran Desai – indyjska pisarka, pisząca w języku angielskim i mieszkająca w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Zdobywczyni Booker Prize i National Book Critics Circle w 2006 za powieść „Brzemię rzeczy utraconych” . Jest córką pisarki Anity Desai. Wikipedia
„Cudownie, że dostanę te pieniądze, bo ja piszę bardzo powoli.”
o otrzymaniu prestiżowej brytyjskiej nagrody literackiej Booker Prize.
Źródło: „Polityka”, 21 października 2006.
“Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.”
Źródło: Inheritance of Loss
“Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?”
Źródło: The Inheritance of Loss
“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
Źródło: The Inheritance of Loss
“Sadness was so claustrophobic.”
Źródło: The Inheritance of Loss
“A journey once begun, has no end”
Źródło: The Inheritance of Loss
“I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.”
Kiran Desai Talk Asia interview http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/04/23/talkasia.desai/ (April 24, 2007), CNN
“I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.”
an interview with kiran desai http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0599/desai/interview.html, Random House
Kiran Desai on the Costs Of Literary Celebrity http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117701272922375905.html (April 21, 2007) by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, The Wall Street Journal
"I am envious of writers who are in India" http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/envious-of-writers-who-are-in-india-kiran-desai/1/180336.html (October 30, 2006), Interview by Nabanita Sircar, India Today
“I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere”
Interview http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/oct/12/bookerprize2006.thebookerprize (12 October 2006), The Guardian
“The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.”
"I am envious of writers who are in India" http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/envious-of-writers-who-are-in-india-kiran-desai/1/180336.html (October 30, 2006), Interview by Nabanita Sircar, India Today
