Anita desai biography india
Anita desai biography india
Fiction Writer, Novelist, Short Story Writer ......
Anita Desai
Indian novelist (born 1937)
Anita DesaiFRSL (born Anita Mazumdar, 24 June 1937) is an Indian novelist and Emerita John E.
Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times.[2][3] She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Literature.[4] She won the Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea (1983).[5] Her other works include The Peacock, Voices in the City, Fire on the Mountain and an anthology of short stories, Games at Twilight.
She is on the advisory board of the Lalit Kala Akademi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, London.[6] Since 2020 she has been a Companion of Literature.
Early life
Desai was born in 1937 in Mussoorie, India, to a German immigrant mother, Toni Nime, and a Bengali busine