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11/10/2006
Kiran Desai wins 2006 Booker Prize
Kiran Desai has won the 2006 Booker Prize for her novel The Inheritance of Loss.
Desai was announced as the winner by Chair of the judges, Hermione Lee, at an awards dinner in London last night.
Desai, who beat favourite Sarah Waters as well as fellow nominees Kate Greenville, Hisham Matar, M J Hyland and Edward St Aubyn, was presented with the £50,000 prize last night.
The Inheritance of Loss is the Indian-born writers second book and it was described by the judges as: "a magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness."
Her mother, novelist Anita Desai, has been shortlisted three times since 1980 but has never won.
Each of the six shortlisted authors, including the winner, receives £2,500 and a designer-bound edition of their book.
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