{"id":3854,"date":"2006-10-10T17:38:16","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T22:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=3854"},"modified":"2006-10-10T15:46:23","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T20:46:23","slug":"breaking_news_k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/10\/breaking_news_k\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Kiran Desai Wins Booker Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Snapper advises us that <strong>Kiran Desai<\/strong> was awarded the MAN Booker Prize for her novel <em>The Inheritance of Loss<\/em> just moments ago. Here is the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themanbookerprize.com\/pressoffice\/release?r=28#titletop\">press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Chair of the judges, Hermione Lee, made the announcement at the awards dinner at the Guildhall, London, which was broadcast live on the BBC 10 O\u00c2\u2019 Clock News. Harvey McGrath, Chairman of Man Group plc, presented Kiran Desai with a cheque for \u00c2\u00a350,000.<br><br>\nHermione Lee comments,<br><br>\n\u00c2\u201cWe are delighted to announce that the winner of the Man Booker Prize for 2006 is Kiran Desai\u00c2\u2019s The Inheritance of Loss, a magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness. The winner was chosen, after a long, passionate and generous debate, from a shortlist of five other strong and original voices.\u00c2\u201d<br><br>\nOver and above her prize of \u00c2\u00a350,000, Kiran Desai is guaranteed a huge increase in sales and recognition worldwide. Each of the six shortlisted authors, including the winner, receives \u00c2\u00a32,500 and a designer-bound edition of their book.<br><br>\nThe judging panel for the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction is: Hermione Lee (Chair), biographer, academic and reviewer; Simon Armitage, poet and novelist; Candia McWilliam, award-winning novelist; critic Anthony Quinn; and actor Fiona Shaw.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>The press release reminds us that Kiran Desai is 35 and the daughter of author Anita Desai. Also, according to the release, Kiran is currently a student in the creative writing program at Columbia. I&#8217;m sure her classmates aren&#8217;t intimidated! Salman Rushdie calls Kiran &#8220;a terrific writer,&#8221; which is more than he had to say about John Updike.<\/p>\n\n<p>Seriously though: Warm and sepia-tinted congratulations to Kiran Desai and let&#8217;s all run out and read her book.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Snapper advises us that Kiran Desai was awarded the MAN Booker Prize for her novel The Inheritance of Loss just moments ago. Here is the official press release: Chair of the judges, Hermione Lee, made the announcement at the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/10\/breaking_news_k\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}