# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Some Favorite Writers: Kiran Desai
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Kiran Desai’s newest novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, is a spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years – an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is a love story, a family saga, and a rich novel of ideas, it is the most ambitious and accomplished work yet by one of our greatest novelists. 

Desai is the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, which was published to unanimous acclaim in over 22 countries, and The Inheritance of Loss, which won the Booker Prize in 2006, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.

Readings are followed by discussion with the author and UCLA professor Mona Simpson, who organizes this series. 

Copresented by the UCLA Department of English. Limited books will be available for purchase.  

Learn more here: https://hmmr.buzz/kiran-desai
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/beverly-hills/some-favorite-writers-kiran-desai/200029356307137
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 4

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Beverly Hills
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States, California 90024
- **lat**: 34.05914
- **long**: -118.44369
- **full address**: 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States, California 90024, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024-4343, United States, Beverly Hills

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- **Q**: When and where is Some Favorite Writers: Kiran Desai being held?
  - **A:** Some Favorite Writers: Kiran Desai takes place on Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm to Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm at 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States, California 90024, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024-4343, United States, Beverly Hills.
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  - **A:** Some Favorite Writers: Kiran Desai is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Beverly Hills, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Some Favorite Writers: Kiran Desai sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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