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Anita Desai FRSL (born Anita Mazumdar; 24 June 1937), is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times.
18 hours ago · At under 100 pages, Anita Desai's latest novella is a quick study in how to pick at universal themes of apathy and neglect at home through a very specific personal story.
Jun 20, 2024 · Anita Desai (born June 24, 1937, Mussoorie, India) is an English-language Indian novelist and author of children’s books who excels in evoking character and mood through visual images ranging from the meteorologic to the botanical.
1 day ago · These questions linger around the lines of Anita Desai 's new work Rosarita, her first novel in a decade. This is a work which sees the world as a porous dimension of interconnectedness. It ...
2 days ago · Anita Desai left India at the age of 45 to teach, first at the University of Cambridge in the UK, and later for a long teaching career in the US. She is a retired professor emeritus at the ...
2 days ago · Anita Desai has often experimented with language, theme and form in her novels. In her latest, Rosarita (Picador), a dream-like novella, Desai gives the narrator a second-person voice.
Jun 27, 2024 · It has been 13 years since the publication of three-time Booker Prize nominee Anita Desai’s previous book The Artist of Disappearance. It was a triptych of novellas in which each took as its...
Novelist, short-story writer and children's author Anita Desai was born in 1937 in Mussoorie, India. She was educated at Delhi University. Her novels include Fire on the Mountain (1977), which won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and Clear Light of Day (1980), In Custody (1984) and Fasting, Feasting (1999), each of which was shortlisted for ...
Jul 9, 2022 · Anita Desai discusses how her deeply personal Booker Prize shortlisted novel Clear Light of Day resonated with readers and critics when first published in 1980, and why its themes remain relevant today.
Anita Mazumdar Desai is an Indian novelist and Emeritus John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker prize three times. Her daughter, the author Kiran Desai, is the winner of the 2006 Booker prize.
