Anita Desai
Novelist, Author
1937 –
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Who is Anita Desai?
Anita Mazumdar Desai 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 Letters; she won the British Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea.
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- Born
- Jun 24, 1937
Mussoorie - Also known as
- Anita Mazumdar Desai
- Anita Mazumdar
- Parents
- Spouses
- Ashvin Desai
(1958 - )
- Ashvin Desai
- Children
- Nationality
- India
- Profession
- Education
- University of Delhi
- Miranda House
- Employment
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Mount Holyoke College
- Lived in
- Dehradun
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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