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Kiran Desai
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Kiran Desai

Author · born September 3, 1971

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Kiran Desai is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. In 2015, The Economic Times named her one of 20 most influential global Indian women.

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  1. ~35Received the Booker Prize2006
  2. ~42Named Guggenheim Fellowship2013

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1956 · United States

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Charlie Sheen
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Charlie Sheen

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1965 · United States

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Garrett Hedlund

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1984 · United States

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Daron Acemoğlu

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1967 · United States

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1905–1991 · United States

Carl David Anderson was an American experimental physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Victor Hess for his discovery of the positron, which confirmed the existence of antimatter.

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