Kiran Desai is the author of two novels, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, which won the Betty Trask Prize, and The Inheritance of Loss for which she received the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has been translated into over forty languages.   She is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, and a Columbia University Medal of Excellence. Her novel The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny will be published internationally in 2025.