Indian writer Kiran Desai, who at the age of 35 has become the youngest woman ever to win Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize, Wednesday recalled her parent's efforts to advise her against a writing career.
Desai, the daughter of writer Anita Desai, won the 50,000-pound (93,500-dollar) award in London late Tuesday for her novel, The Inheritance of Loss.
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