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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.
Anita Desai is an Indian writer and novelist who has spent the majority of her life writing fiction. Some of her most famous works include ‘Cry, the Peacock’ (1963), ‘Clear Light of Day, (1980), Fasting, Feasting (1999). Desai was admired for her writing style, in which she delves deeper into her protagonist’s life. Wiki/Biography. Family.
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 ...
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...
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 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. 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.
5 days ago · 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 ...
Desai gained recognition as a writer of profound psychological insight on the displaced and the alienated who often face prejudice and who often suffer a fractured sense of identity. Her style is characterized by its precision and careful crafting.
