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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.

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   • July fiction picks: A new novella by Anita Desai and five just-published books to read this month

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4. www.britannica.com › biography › Anita-DesaiAnita Desai | Fiction Writer, Novelist, Short Story Writer

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   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.

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   Learn about the life and works of Anita Desai, a novelist, short-story writer and children's author from India. Explore her themes, style, awards and critical perspective.

   • Place Of Birth: Mussoorie, India

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7. www.enotes.com › topics › anita-desaiAnita Desai Biography - eNotes.com

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   Learn about the life and works of Anita Desai, one of the best-known contemporary women writers of Indian fiction in English. Explore her themes of female sensibility, cross-cultural conflicts, and spiritual questing in novels such as Clear Light of Day, In Custody, and Journey to Ithaca.

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   Jun 27, 2024 · In Rosarita, the known rubs up against the unknown, and a kaleidoscopic network of possible lives are lost and found in barely 100 pages. Rosarita by Anita Desai Picador £12.99, 112 pages. Join ...

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   2 days ago · The Anita Desai we encounter in Rosarita is very different from her other novels. First, this is your slimmest book. First, this is your slimmest book. Second, the prose is very sparse and there ...

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    Who is Anita Desai?

    • 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. Born to a German mother and Bengali father, Desai grew up speaking German, Hindi, and English.

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    How does Anita Desai feel about India?

    • Anita Desai confesses that while she 'feels about India as an Indian,' she thinks about it 'as an outsider'. Desai probably derived this point of view from her German mother, whom she aptly describes as carrying 'a European core in her which protested against certain Indian things, which always maintained its independence and its separateness.'

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    How many books does Anita Desai have?

    • To add more books, click here . Anita Desai has 83 books on Goodreads with 77052 ratings. Anita Desai’s most popular book is Fasting, Feasting.

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    What language does Anita Desai write in?

    • Well versed in German, Bengali, Hindi, and English, Anita Desai has always preferred to write in the English language. In Cry, the Peacock, she delves into the mind of a hypersensitive young urban wife, Maya, who finds herself coupled with the ascetic Gautama, a man given to abstraction and philosophy.

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11. www.goodreads.com › author › listBooks by Anita Desai (Author of Fasting, Feasting) - Goodreads

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    Anita Desai has 85 books on Goodreads with 77498 ratings. Anita Desai’s most popular book is Fasting, Feasting.