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 ...
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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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Anita Desai, the distinguished fiction writer, is the Spring 2003 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College.
Born and educated in India, Anita Desai has written many novels and short stories, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times for her novels ...
Jun 30, 2024 · At 87, the Indian author has been shortlisted for the Booker prize three times, and has written her first novel in a decade.
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A "beautifully written, richly textured, and haunting story" (Chaim Potok), BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY is Anita Desai's classic novel of the Holocaust era, ...
Novelist, short-story writer and children's author Anita Desai was born in 1937 in Mussoorie, India. She was educated at Delhi University.
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 ...
Jhabvala was a German who had married an Indian architect, and Desai had a German mother, so it was their shared roots that drew them to each other.
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 ...