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What is the name of the writer of Indian origin whose novel,The Inheritance of Loss has bagged Man Booker Prize ?
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- Vikram Seth
- Kiran Desai
- Salman Rushdie
- V.S. Naipaul
- Vikram Seth
Correct Option: B
Kiran Desai (born 3 September, 1971) is an Indian author. She is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. Her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published in 1998 and received accolades from such notable figures as Salman Rushdie. It won the Betty Trask Award, a prize given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age of 35.