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Last updated: 22 december, 2009 - 17:47 GMT

Kiran Desai

Indian writer Kiran Desai's Booker prize-winning and international bestselling The Inheritance of Loss, is a profoundly moving cross-continental saga that moves from the Himalayas to New York City.

Harriett Gilbert interviewed the author at the South Bank Arts Centre in London in front of a live audience.

The Inheritance of Loss won the Man-Booker prize.