Kiran Desai
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Kiran Desai is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. In 2015, The Economic Times named her one of 20
Desai reading on behalf of Salman Rushdie at the 2024 National Book Awards finalist reading
Kiran Desai during a book tour in 2013
Bennington College
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Bennington College is a private liberal arts college in Bennington, Vermont, United States. Founded as a women’s college in 1932, it became co-educational in 1969. It is accredited by the New England
Kiran Desai
…School. Desai left India at 15, and she and her mother lived in England for a year before moving to the United States. She studied creative writing at Bennington College, Hollins University, and Columbia University. Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published in 1998. It won the Betty Trask Award…
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Jennings, the college's music building
The Commons Building
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