Which author won the 2006 Booker Prize for 'The Inheritance of Loss'?

Which author won the 2006 Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss? Kiran Desai won the prize for her novel The Inheritance of Loss.

Published in 2006, the novel moves between Kalimpong in the Indian Himalayas and the United States. Its central figures include Sai, a young girl living with her grandfather, and Biju, an undocumented Indian immigrant working in American kitchens. Their parallel experiences explore migration, identity, economic inequality and the lasting effects of colonialism.

The story is set against the Gorkhaland movement in the 1980s, giving its family drama a wider political background. Desai contrasts characters who feel alienated in India with those who discover that life abroad does not automatically provide belonging or security.

Desai was the youngest woman to win the Booker Prize at the time of her victory. The award is sometimes confused with her mother Anita Desai's literary career, but Kiran Desai alone won the 2006 prize. Her winning novel also received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2007.