# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kiran-desai
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:12:32.712Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/kiran-desai"
name: "Kiran Desai"
slug: "kiran-desai"
description: "Kiran Desai is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. In 2015, The Economic Times named her one of 20 most influential global Indian women."
tagline: "Indian author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kiran_Desai_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1971-09-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.739246560619089
  historical:           23.898564
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump