'The Inheritance of Loss’ book is written by ______.

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The correct answer is Kiran Desai.Key Points

Kiran Desai is an Indian author who was born in New Delhi in 1971.
She is the daughter of Anita Desai, who is also a well-known author.
'The Inheritance of Loss' is a novel written by Kiran Desai and was published in 2006.
The novel won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in the same year.
The novel tells the story of an Indian judge living in Kalimpong, a town in the Himalayan foothills, and his granddaughter who comes to live with him.
The story deals with themes of identity, exile, and the clash of cultures.

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VS Naipaul is a Trinidadian-British author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001.
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Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian author who is known for his controversial novel 'The Satanic Verses'.