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Anita Desai, née Anita Mazumdar, is an Indian novelist and John E. Burchard Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a writer, she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. She received the Sahitya Akademi Prize in 1978 for her novel Fire in the Mountains, from Sahitya Akademi, India's National Library of Letters. She won the British Guardian Award for the Seaside Village.
BornAnita Mazumdar, June 24, 1937, Mussoorie
OccupationWriter, professor
NationalityIndian
Alma materUniversity of Delhi
Period1963–present
GenreFiction
Children4, including Kiran Desai

About Anita Desai

Novelist Anita Desai was born on June 24, 1937 in India (She's 86 years old now).

She is most known for her British Guardian Prize-winning novel, The Village By the Sea, for which she was nominated three times for the Booker Prize. She was also a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she taught humanities.

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Anita Desai before becoming famous

Anita Desai was born in the Zodiac sign Cancer (The Crab), and 1937 is also the year of Ox (牛) in the Chinese Zodiac.

In 1957, she graduated from the University of Delhi with a degree in English literature.

Achievement of Anita Desai

Clear Light of Day, In Custy and Fasting, and Feasting are among her award-nominated works of fiction.

Anita Desai's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

She had four children with her businessman husband, Ashvin Desai.

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Anita Desai Collabed with

Novelist Kiran Desai, her daughter, wrote a Booker Prize-winning novel.

Anita Desai Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Anita Desai updated on March 15 2023.