Desai double act at Southbank Centre

Anita and Kiran Desai help celebrate Wasifiri birthday

11 November 2009

Anita Desai and Kiran Desai, mere et fille, made a rare appearance on 31 October 2009 when Wasafiri celebrated its 25th birthday with a day-long festival of international writing held at London's Southbank Centre.  

Kiran Desai's 2006 Man Booker Prize-winning The Inheritance of Loss is currently The Guardian's Book of the Month. Kiran Desai also took part in an event at The Guardian offices at King's Place on Tuesday 3 November where she spoke to John Mullan, professor of English at University College London, about her award-winning novel and gave some tantalizing hints about the novel she is currently working on.

Anita Desai has been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize, with Clear Light Of Day (1980), In Custody (1994) and Fasting, Feasting (1999).

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