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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.
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.
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 21, 2024 · Follow Us. Rosarita by Anita Desai (Source: Amazon) The Smart and The Dumb (Rs 599, Penguin) by Vishal Vasanthakumar is an analysis of how caste, class and gender still determine access to education in India, a country that boasts of private schools, colleges and coaching centres with turnovers in hundreds of crores, but fails to reach a ...
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.
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.
May 23, 2018 · Anita Desai is a leading member of a generation of writers who have carved out a niche for Indian fiction in English—today a burgeoning literary arena with writers of Indian descent or origin chiming in from around the world.
2 days ago · Anita Desai’s powerful new novella on identity and migration is narrated with a dream-like vividness and slippery experimental prose 2024-07-27 - Rajni George Anita Desai’s 18th book, Rosarita, distils many of the thematic concerns—identity, gender, migration—of her long and august career. Told mostly in the second person, in hundred spare pages and over five chapters, the novella is a quietly powerful collage by the three-time Booker-nominated novelist.
Anita Desai’s strengths as writer include the craft of creating images through her writing that evoke character and mood. She paints a portrait of lives impacted by the quest for identity and...
Jan 6, 2023 · She has taught at various prestigious universities around the world, and is professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Born in British India, Anita Desai’s parents were Dhiren Mazumdar, an Indian businessman, and Antoinette Nim, a German.
