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Booker Prize 2025 shortlist: Kiran Desai joins Susan Choi, Katie Kitamura, Ben Markovits, Andrew Miller and David Szalay on this year’s Booker Prize shortlist, announced in London.

Booker Prize 2025 shortlist announced — and Kiran Desai is back

October 08, 2025 12:17 pm

Booker Prize 2025 shortlist: The 2025 Booker Prize shortlist features six novels, including Kiran Desai’s much-anticipated The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, alongside works by Susan Choi, Katie Kitamura and others.

Booker winner Kiran Desai is returning with her third book, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, after two decades.

'Fame is another kind of loneliness': Kiran Desai on her Booker-shortlisted novel

October 23, 2025 4:51 pm

The writer, 54, on her new novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, what she has learned about fame from her mother Anita Desai, and on being back in the Booker reckoning

'I wanted to look at different kinds of loneliness': Kiran Desai on her new novel

September 23, 2025 1:31 pm

Kiran Desai's 'The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny' explores exile and intimacy. In an interview with the Indian Express she describes loneliness as a force that flows.

Former US President Barack Obama’s 2025 summer picks include Indian novelist Anita Desai’s Rosarita.

Anita Desai's 'beautiful novella' Rosarita features on Barack Obama's 2025 Summer Reading List

September 05, 2025 1:56 pm

Former US President Barack Obama’s 2025 summer picks range from history to fiction, with Indian novelist Anita Desai’s Rosarita standing out.

Booker nominated author Kiran Desai has written Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998) and The Inheritance of Loss.

2 Kiran Desai novels to read while we wait for Booker-nominated 'The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny'

August 13, 2025 11:17 am

2025 Booker Prize longlist: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai's third novel, which is coming out after 19 years of her Booker-winning second novel, is set to release on September 25.

Anita Desai and her daughter Kiran Desai both of whom have made it to the booker prize longlist multiple times

As Kiran Desai eyes a second Booker, we remember 3 times her mother Anita Desai made it to the shortlist

August 08, 2025 11:33 am

As Kiran Desai returns to the Booker Prize longlist nearly two decades after her win, we look back at the three novels that earned her mother, Anita Desai, a place in the prize’s literary pantheon.

The cover of Kiran Desai’s new novel The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, which has been longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize.

Kiran Desai’s first novel in 19 years earns spot on Booker Prize 2025 longlist

August 29, 2025 3:47 pm

The Booker Prize 2025 longlist features 13 titles from around the world, including Indian-origin author Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny; if Desai wins, she would become only the fifth author to win the Booker twice

Anita Desai on new novella Rosarita, her changing relationship with India and why families never cease to surprise

October 13, 2024 6:40 am

In the sparsely-written work, Desai explores the unknown layers to individual lives that get subsumed in the quiet violence of the everyday

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Will return award if Sahitya Akademi can’t defend right to dissent: Anita Desai

October 22, 2015 9:23 am

Desai is known for her novels such as The Village by the Sea and the Fire on the Mountain, for which she received the Sahitya Akademi award. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize thrice.