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Born September 3, 1971 (age 55) • Delhi • India
Awards And Honors Booker Prize (2006)
Notable Works “Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard” • “The Inheritance of Loss” • “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny”
Notable Family Members mother Anita Desai

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