Kiran Desai wins Booker Prize

Indian writer Kiran Desai won Britain’s prestigious Man Booker Prize Tuesday for “The Inheritance of Loss,” a cross-continental saga that moves from the Himalayas to New York City.

Desai, daughter of novelist Anita Desai, had been one of the favorites for the $93,000 prize.

Born in 1971 and educated in India, England and the United States, Desai published her first novel, “Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard,” in 1998.