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| Kiran Desai claims Booker title | Kiran Desai claims Booker title |
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| Kiran Desai has won the UK's leading literary award, the Man Booker Prize, for her novel The Inheritance of Loss. | Kiran Desai has won the UK's leading literary award, the Man Booker Prize, for her novel The Inheritance of Loss. |
| She picked up the £50,000 prize after being chosen by a panel of judges from a shortlist of six. | She picked up the £50,000 prize after being chosen by a panel of judges from a shortlist of six. |
| Desai beat favourite Sarah Waters - shortlisted for The Night Watch - and fellow nominees Kate Greenville, Hisham Matar, M J Hyland and Edward St Aubyn. | Desai beat favourite Sarah Waters - shortlisted for The Night Watch - and fellow nominees Kate Greenville, Hisham Matar, M J Hyland and Edward St Aubyn. |
| Desai, 35, is the youngest female winner of the prize. The Inheritance of Loss is her second novel. | Desai, 35, is the youngest female winner of the prize. The Inheritance of Loss is her second novel. |
| The judges hailed the novel as "a magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness". | The judges hailed the novel as "a magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness". |
| I think her mother would be proud Hermione LeeChair of the judges | I think her mother would be proud Hermione LeeChair of the judges |
| Desai' dedicated the novel to her mother and fellow novelist Anita Desai who has herself been nominated for the Booker prize three times, but has never won. | Desai' dedicated the novel to her mother and fellow novelist Anita Desai who has herself been nominated for the Booker prize three times, but has never won. |
| Hermione Lee, chairwoman of the judges, said: "I think her mother would be proud. | Hermione Lee, chairwoman of the judges, said: "I think her mother would be proud. |
| "It is clear to those of us who have read Anita Desai that Kiran Desai has learned from her mother's work. | "It is clear to those of us who have read Anita Desai that Kiran Desai has learned from her mother's work. |
| "Both write not just about India but about Indian communities in the world. | "Both write not just about India but about Indian communities in the world. |
| href="/1/hi/entertainment/5347028.stm" class="">Profile: Kiran Desai | |
| "The remarkable thing about Kiran Desai is that she is aware of her Anglo-Indian inheritance - of Naipaul and Narayan and Rushdie - but she does something pioneering. | "The remarkable thing about Kiran Desai is that she is aware of her Anglo-Indian inheritance - of Naipaul and Narayan and Rushdie - but she does something pioneering. |
| "She seems to jump on from those traditions and create something which is absolutely of its own. | "She seems to jump on from those traditions and create something which is absolutely of its own. |
| "The book is movingly strong in its humanity and I think that in the end is why it won." | "The book is movingly strong in its humanity and I think that in the end is why it won." |
| Sarah Waters had been favourite to win the award.But on Monday bookmakers reported a surge in people backing Desai. | Sarah Waters had been favourite to win the award.But on Monday bookmakers reported a surge in people backing Desai. |
| The Inheritance of Loss tells the story of a Cambridge-educated Indian judge who lives a reclusive retirement in the foothills of the Himalayas. | The Inheritance of Loss tells the story of a Cambridge-educated Indian judge who lives a reclusive retirement in the foothills of the Himalayas. |
| But the arrival of his orphaned teenage granddaughter, and his cook's son's attempts to keep one step ahead of the US immigration department, threatens to shatter his peace. | But the arrival of his orphaned teenage granddaughter, and his cook's son's attempts to keep one step ahead of the US immigration department, threatens to shatter his peace. |
| Desai herself lived in India until the age of 15, when she moved to England to continue her education. | Desai herself lived in India until the age of 15, when she moved to England to continue her education. |