Kiran Desai
AGE: 35
OCCUPATION: Author
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0
PRO: Her 2006 novel, The Inheritance of Loss—which focused on migration and the disparity of living between two worlds—won the Man/Booker Prize (she was the youngest female writer ever to do so) as well as the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.
CON: Nepalese and Indian readers chafe at her novels, which they feel over-romanticize India and are insensitive and prejudiced towards the Nepalese.