Hello book
lovers! In celebration of Women’s History Month, I would like to present to you
novelist, Kiran Desai. In 1998, her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava
Orchard received many accolades from literary figures such as Salman
Rushdie. It won the Betty Trask Award, a prize given by the Society of Authors
for best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age of
35. Her next novel, The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker
Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. 

In May 2007,
she was the featured author at the inaugural Asia House Festival of Cold Literature.
In August 2008, she was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music
discussion show hosted by Michael Berkeley on BBC Radio 3. She was awarded a
2013 Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. And in January
2015, The Economic Times listed her as one of 20 “most influential” global
Indian women. Check out her quote about writing according to a set of rules. #womenshistorymonth
#novelist #BettyTraskAward #ManBookerPrize #NationalBookCriticsCircleFictionAward #BerlinPrizeFellowship #KiranDesai #vocalexpressions  

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Deliah Lawrence Attorney, Author, Blogger, Workshop Facilitator

Deliah Lawrence is a Maryland-based attorney and award-winning author of two romantic suspense novels (Gotta Let It Go and Gotta Get It Back) set in Baltimore. She’s also a blogger and workshop facilitator who writes poetry and short stories.

When Deliah isn’t writing, you can find her reading a book, indulging in her addiction to investigation discovery shows; or painting her yet-to-be exhibited oil artworks of landscapes, portraits or whatever else comes to her creative mind. Constantly on the go, she is also a member of the Black Writers’ Guild of Maryland and Sisters in Crime.