Anita Desai FRSL (born Anita Mazumdar; 24 June 1937), is an Indian novelist and Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute ...
Anita Desai
Indian novelist
Anita Desai FRSL, is an Indian novelist and Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. Wikipedia
Born: 1937 (age 87 years), Mussoorie, India
Spouse: Ashvin Desai (m. 1958)
Children: Kiran Desai
Parents: Toni Nime and D. N. Mazumdar
Alma mater: University of Delhi
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