Anita Desai
Indian novelist (born 1937) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anita Desai FRSL, born Anita Mazumdar (born 24 June 1937), is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times.[2][3] She received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.[4] She won the British Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea (1983).[5] Her other works include The Peacock, Voices in the City, Fire on the Mountain and an anthology of short stories, Games at Twilight. She is on the advisory board of the Lalit Kala Akademi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, London.[6]
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Born | Anita Mazumdar (1937-06-24) 24 June 1937 (age 86) Mussoorie, Princely State of Tehri Garhwal, British India (present-day Uttarakhand, India) |
Occupation | Writer, professor |
Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | University of Delhi |
Period | 1963–present |
Genre | Fiction |
Notable works | In Custody; Baumgartner's Bombay |
Spouse | Ashvin Desai |
Children | 4, including Kiran Desai |