Archive · 23 Sep 2025

Kiran Desai on Loneliness, Fame, and Her New Book

Kiran Desai on Loneliness, Fame, and Her New Book

Kiran Desai, who won the Booker Prize, has a new book coming out after a long time.

This new book is about different kinds of loneliness, like feeling alone when you move to a new place or miss your family.

Desai says her own experiences in college helped inspire the book.

She also talks about how hard it is to make art when everyone is busy with other things.

Desai says that fame can be lonely.

She also learned a lot about the public eye from her mother, who is also a writer.

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