Have you met Kiran Desai?

Kiran Desai, 35, the India-born, US-educated author, has just become the youngest woman to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The Inheritance of Loss (2006).

'My mother told me never to be a writer'

Did you know her? Did you study with her? Meet her?

Tell us of your memories; send us your treasured pictures; celebrate her achievement with us.