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LONDON, Oct 11, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Kiran Desai, a 35-year-old Indian-born author, was awarded Britain's Man Booker Prize Tuesday night for her novel "The Inheritance of Loss."
Desai is the first woman to receive the prestigious award since 2000 and is the youngest female winner ever, the Booker committee said in a news release. She is also the daughter of author Anita Desai, who has been nominated for the Man Booker before but has never won.
The novel is set in the Himalayas and involves a Nepalese insurgency that disrupts a budding love affair between the book's heroine and her handsome tutor.
The Man Booker Prize includes 50,000 pounds and a shot of publicity for Desai, whose first book was 1998's "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard."
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