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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. As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times.

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     Anita Desai’s newest offering Rosarita is a dreamy and wistful tale of a matriarchal haunting in Mexico

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     Sunday book pick: A Jewish refugee in Bombay in Anita Desai’s novel ‘Baumgartner’s Bombay’

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     'Rosarita' Novelist Anita Desai returns with new book after over a decade

     Exploring themes of memory, grief and isolation, the three-time Booker-shortlisted author Anita Desai is set to return with new novella, "Rosarita", her first in over a decade. Published by Pan Macmillan India,

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     Rosarita — Anita Desai’s tantalising tale of memory, family and fantasy

     After a period of retreat of her own, Desai — who has just turned 87 — returns with an evocative new work. Rosarita is another tale of lost or unseen lives, and its litheness and spareness is reminiscent of the stories in the volume that precedes it.

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     The Daily Telegraph on MSN.com

     If this is Anita Desai’s swansong, it’s a magnificent way to go

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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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5. literature.britishcouncil.org › writer › anita-desaiAnita Desai - Literature - British Council

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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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   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 did Desai come of age?

   • Having come of age when India achieved independence in 1947, Desai weaves politics and gender issues into her works. Desai was born in Mussoorie, India, and spent her childhood in Delhi. Her parents met in Germany when her father was studying there, and they moved back to his home of India in the 1920s.

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   Who is Anita Mazumdar Desai?

   • 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. Anita Desai was born in 1937.

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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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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, styles, awards, and influences in this comprehensive study guide.

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   Learn about the life and achievements of Anita Desai, a renowned Indian writer who explores politics and gender issues in her novels. Find study guides, themes, quotes, and more on her works, such as Cry, the Peacock, Clear Light of Day, and The Zigzag Way.

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10. literariness.org › analysis-of-anita-desais-novelsAnalysis of Anita Desai’s Novels – Literary Theory and Criticism

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    Apr 5, 2019 · Anita Desai’s (born 24 June 1937) novels reveal certain recurring patterns in plots, settings, and characterizations. The plots of her novels fuse two opposing propensities—one toward the gothic mystery and the other toward the philosophical novel.

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    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.