Booker to Kiran Desai
October 10, 2006
The U.K.'s prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction went to Kiran Desai for The Inheritance of Loss. Cheers! What would you do with 50,000 pounds?
The U.K.'s prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction went to Kiran Desai for The Inheritance of Loss. Cheers! What would you do with 50,000 pounds?
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I guess first I'd figure out how much I had in good old American money. Then I'd start with a cell phone that doesn't cut people off for no reason at all. Oh, and more rechargable batteries.
Posted by: MotherReader | October 10, 2006 at 08:49 PM
It's roughly double the amount in USD, so $100,000.
Personally I'd clear my outstanding student debts and then go to Sweden for a holiday... After that, I'd probably find somewhere else to live that's not a tiny book-filled attic !
Posted by: Michele | October 11, 2006 at 06:36 AM
Travel, travel, travel!
A big congrats to Kiran.
And to tie it all back into children's books, her debut novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, is very appropriate for older teens. It has a magical-realist quality about it that readers will appreciate. (In fact, several of Anita Desai's [Kiran's mother and three-time Booker Prize nominee] books are suitable for teens as well: Fasting, Feasting and The Village by the Sea.)
Posted by: Pooja | October 11, 2006 at 11:41 AM
Take my mom on a fabulous holiday or two or three -- especially if I inherited my talent from her.
Posted by: Mitali Perkins | October 14, 2006 at 11:19 AM