In which year did Kiran Desai win the Booker Prize for her novel 'The Inheritance of Loss'?

Kiran Desai won the Man Booker Prize in 2006 for her second novel, "The Inheritance of Loss". At 35, she was then the youngest woman to win the prize.

About the novel:

• It is set mainly in Kalimpong, in the Himalayan foothills of West Bengal, during the Gorkhaland agitation of the 1980s, and in New York.
• The main characters are a retired judge, his orphaned granddaughter Sai, their cook, and the cook's son Biju, who lives as an illegal immigrant in the USA.
• It explores themes of globalisation, migration, colonial legacy, class and the feeling of loss and displacement.
• It also won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2006).

About Kiran Desai:

• She was born in 1971 in Chandigarh and is the daughter of the novelist Anita Desai, who was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times.
• Her first novel, "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard" (1998), about a young man who climbs a guava tree and becomes a local holy man, won the Betty Trask Award.

Booker Prize winners of Indian origin or Indian subjects:

1971: V. S. Naipaul, "In a Free State".

1981: Salman Rushdie, "Midnight's Children" (later named the "Booker of Bookers").

1997: Arundhati Roy, "The God of Small Things", the first Indian woman to win.

2006: Kiran Desai, "The Inheritance of Loss".

2008: Aravind Adiga, "The White Tiger".

International Booker Prize (for translated fiction):

• 2022: Geetanjali Shree, "Tomb of Sand" (translated from the Hindi "Ret Samadhi" by Daisy Rockwell), the first book translated from an Indian language to win.
• 2025: Banu Mushtaq, "Heart Lamp" (short stories translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi).

Why not the other options?

• ✗1997 is when Arundhati Roy won the Booker for "The God of Small Things".
• ✗2008 is when Aravind Adiga won for "The White Tiger".
• ✗2011 is not linked to an Indian Booker winner.