EPISODE · Oct 25, 2025 · 45 MIN
Two decades later, Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai returns
from Daily Politics from the New Statesman
The youngest winner of the Booker Prize fell silent. Now she's back with a new novel.--With only her second novel The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai won the 2006 Booker Prize, the leading literary prize in the global Anglosphere, becoming - at the time - the youngest person ever to do so. She was thirty-five. Then: silence. 19 years of it, before another novel emerged - this year. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny. Desai joins Tanjil Rashid on The New Society to discuss her latest novel, and why it was 19 years in the making.LISTEN AD-FREE:📱Download the New Statesman appMORE FROM THE NEW STATESMAN:❓ Ask a question – we answer them every Friday⏰ Get our daily politics newsletter every morning✍️ Enjoy the best of our writing via email every Saturday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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