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MUMBAI: The youngest ever winner of the Man Booker Prize speaks
to CNN’s Anjali Rao in this weekend’s TALK ASIA. Kiran
Desai takes Rao behind the scenes of Hong Kong’s literary festival
and explains what it’s like to be a celebrity author at such
a young age.
 Desai’s
award-winning Inheritance of Loss took seven years to write. The
35 year-old explains that her journey to get there was one of self-discovery
and reflection on her experience of living as an immigrant in the
U.S. Desai also speaks of what it meant to leave her homeland of
India. Her book was not without controversy however, as she relates
her distress at the hate mail she received and the violent protests
that erupted in Northern India in the wake of its publication.
Literary excellence runs in the Desai family as Kiran’s mother
Anita Desai was shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize –
but without success. Kiran Desai talks fondly of her close friendship
with fellow author Salman Rushdie, a family friend who has helped
and advised her on how to deal with even the harshest of critics.
Catch Kiran Desai on her whirlwind trip to Hong Kong with Anjali
Rao on this weekend’s TALK ASIA.
Airtimes: Indian Standard Times
Saturday, April 21 at 05:00hrs, 20:30hrs
Sunday, April 22 at 18:30hrs
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