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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. She received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Literature. She won the British Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea (1983). Her other works include The ...
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. Born to a German mother and Bengali father, Desai grew up speaking German, Hindi, and English.
Anita Desai lives in the United States, where she is the John E. Burchard Professor of Writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Her most recent book is The Artist of Disappearance (2011), a trio of linked novellas about the art world, each featuring a different kind of disappearance.
Anita Desai (dee-SI) is one of the best-known contemporary women writers of Indian fiction in English. Born to a Bengali father and a German mother, she is an excellent example of the bicultural ...
2 days ago · Rosarita (Rs 499, Pan Macmillan) by Anita Desai is the first book in over a decade by the thrice-Booker-shortlisted writer, about a woman, Bonita, determined to forge her own path but finding it not what she expected. She has come far away from her home in India to Mexico, where a woman recognises her as resembling her (provincial) mother, who apparently made the same trip decades ago as a painter.
Jul 9, 2022 · In this exclusive interview, Anita Desai discusses her deeply personal 1980 novel Clear Light of Day and explains why its themes remain relevant today. Written by Sarah Shaffi. Publication date and time: Published July 9, 2022. It’s morning on the East Coast of the US, where Anita Desai is based, when we speak over the phone. She has a quiet voice that commands attention: every word is considered, and she takes time to absorb questions before answering them.
Anita Desai was born in 1937. Her published works include adult novels, children's books and short stories. She is a member of the Advisory Board for English of the National Academy of Letters in Delhi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London. 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.
Jan 3, 2018 · Anita Desai is a famous Indian novelist and short story writer. She is one among the very few who have given Indians a global say in the terms of English literature. Her novels surpass the timeline and are still read widely somewhere because of the academic compulsion and somewhere because of literary awareness.
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 ...
Anita Desai. Anita Desai has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times - 1980, 1984 and in 1999. She was born in Mussoorie, India and is the author of many novels and short stories. She is the Emerita John E Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts ...
Anita Desai (née Mazumbar) is a critically lauded 20th-century writer, and her novels on the experiences and inner lives of Indian men and women are known for their compassion, eloquence, and lucid prose. 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 ...
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 ...
Anita Desai has 81 books on Goodreads with 78178 ratings. Anita Desai’s most popular book is Fasting, Feasting.
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. The gothic orientation, which Desai probably derived from Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847), is evident in varying degrees in all…
May 23, 2018 · Anita Desai was born on June 24, 1937, in the hill station of Mussoorie, Uttar Pradesh, India. She was one of four children: she had a brother and two sisters, all raised in what was a British colony in their youth. Desai's father D.N. Mazumdar was a Bengali engineer.
6 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Discussing the plot details of her daughter-centric novella, the conversation segues into Desai’s writer daughter Kiran Desai and her remarkable 2006 Booker prize win for “The Inheritance of Loss”.
Anita Desai is a literary fiction award-winning Indian novelist and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Born in 1937, she is the daughter of a Bengali businessman, D.N. Mazumdar, and a German immigrant mother, Toni Nime. Her father met her immigrant mother while studying engineering in prewar Berlin. The two married when it was unusual for an Indian man to marry a European woman. After marriage, the parents migrated to New Delhi.
Wiki/Biography. Anita Desai was born as ‘Anita Mazumdar’ on Thursday, 24 June 1937 ( age 86 years; as of 2023) in Mussoorie, British India (now in India), in a mixed-race family. Her zodiac sign is cancer. She went to Queen Mary’s Higher Secondary School for her primary education and later pursued a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature ...
She began to read and write in English at the age of seven and published her first novel at the age of nine. Anita Desai’s husband, Ashvin Desai was also an author who published his first novel titled ‘Between Eternities: Ideas on Life and Cosmos’ in 2008; he earlier worked as a director of a software company.
2 days ago · Anita Desai got married to the late Ashvin Desai, an Indian businessman, in 1958. The couple has four children. She left India at the age of 45 to teach, first at the University of Cambridge in ...
6 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 29, 2024 · Desai lives in New York State but has visited Mexico, where Rosarita is set, many times. Photograph: Beowulf Sheehan. The day of my interview with Anita Desai, there are flash floods in greater New York and, after my train breaks down and I am stranded at the station, the 87-year-old plunges out in her car to fetch me.
Dec 16, 2017 · Anita Desai's work is a part of new style of writing, Anita Desai once said, ‘My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly’. Her distinct style of writing, her original characters and her realistic subject-line is what made her writings so endearing. Desai's descriptive skill is widely acclaimed by critics.
Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Bharati Mukherjee and Shobha De specially exhibits a steady progression in context of the three stages advocated by Elaine Showalter. Their female protagonists display a psychic transformation traversing and evolving gradually but firmly through the respective stages of imitation of tradition, protest and advocacy of rights, and eventually introspection leading to self-discovery which ...
Abstract Anita Desai, a globally celebrated writer, has a detached view of the complexity of therelationships, the Indian culture and customs weighing on the Indian minds, especially that of theIndian women, and the crunch of identity...
May 24, 2024 · ‘Rosarita’: Anita Desai’s new novel shows she is still at the top of her game; Sections Politics; Culture; India; World; Film and TV; Music; Books and Ideas; Business and Economy;
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