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Booker Prize author “credits” Bush for literary award
But not in the way you might think (emphasis added):
TORONTO (Reuters) – Indian novelist Kiran Desai said she may never have won the Booker Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards, had George W. Bush not been U.S. president — as he put her off becoming an American citizen.
The Man Booker Prize is open only to British and Commonwealth citizens and Indian-born Desai has yet to apply for a U.S. passport, although she has lived in New York for 20 years.
“George Bush won once and he won the second time and I couldn’t bring myself to (apply),” Desai said late last month in an interview in Toronto as she voiced her disapproval of the president’s foreign policy.
“So I really owe George Bush my Booker, in an odd way. It’s really very funny.”
Desai, 35, became the youngest woman to capture the 50,000 pound ($95,000) prize last month with her sweeping novel “The Inheritance of Loss.” The book’s narrative ranges from undocumented workers in New York to political violence in the foothills of the Himalayas during the 1980s.
The novelist divides her time between New York and New Delhi, and while she finds traveling difficult on an Indian passport, she said it helped her maintain an essential contact with her roots while penning her prize-winning book.
“I couldn’t have written this book without being interested (in India), I felt very Indian while writing it,” she said.
“With politics in the United States, my immediate thought is how is this going to affect India or the Third World, who are they letting into the country, who they happen to be bombing.”
Well thank goodness she found something good about this country – like the fact that she enjoys the right to write freely here without fear of persecution.
I’m also surprised she didn’t thank several prior presidents for her award. Afterall, she’s been here for 20 years, which, by my calculations means she failed to apply for a passport under Reagan’s, Bush I’s, and Clinton’s 2 terms respectively … but it’s Bush she has to thank for her not yet becoming a US citizen. Interesting.
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Another writer of the Left, awarded yet another literary prize for a book that few will read. What a surprise!
Plplplp!
The mark of a true lefty – everybody but oneself is to blame for one’s own actions. So because George W. Bush merely exists she is incapable of applying for citizenship. I’m sure that as soon as Dubya is sent to the Gulag she’ll recommence her application.
I rather hope not – we have far too many homegrown whiners as it is, no need to import them. I’d swap her in a heartbeat for an Asian refugee family that within five years will be owning their own business and sending their kids to Stanford and West Point. Lucky for her, nobody’s going to make the swap, she can continue idling about trash talking her semi-adopted country.
Let’s all pray that she doesn’t find herself at Ground Zero the next time the Jihadis sneak one through.
Kiran Desai, we are also glad that you are not an American citizen. USCIS has already fulfilled it’s idiot quota for the next few centuries.
Two points, the first is I have met a number of great people from India, not all have been wonderful but most of the ones I have known are great, smart, well educated, family oriented and hard working people. I am glad these folk have chosen to make the USA their home.
Second, read the whole thing folks, Kiran Desai has lived in New York for the past 20 years. No wonder she dislikes Bush, every one I know from NYC really, really dislikes Bush.
So, if Kiran Desai ever decides to move from New York City to the United States and give us a chance she might find that this country is a great country worthy of her citizenship and then she can vote for her choice of candidates.
Otherwise, I am overjoyed for her to stay in NYC and I hope that others that share her feelings will also make similar decisions. Just stay where you are and stay out of our politics, if you don’t vote you can’t complain.
Now that I think of it, can she make a bunch of our entertainment people citizens of her country, then they too can win more prizes and not vote. I love her logic. Hey fly over people you were pond scum when you elected Bush and Kiran Desai knows it.
What a clown.
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If she felt so Indian writting the book why isn’t she LIVING in her own country as a LEGAL citizen, the more I hear about these loons the more I feel my head may explode. !!!!!
Drewsmom, I am with you!
Kira darlin’ go home!