Anita Mazumdar (1937-06-24) 24 June 1937 (age 86) Mussoorie, Princely State of Tehri Garhwal, British India (present-day Uttarakhand, India)
Occupation
Writer, professor
Nationality
Indian
Alma mater
University of Delhi
Period
1963–present
Genre
Fiction
Notable works
In Custody; Baumgartner's Bombay
Spouse
Ashvin Desai
Children
4, including Kiran Desai
Anita DesaiFRSL, born Anita Mazumdar (born 24 June 1937), is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times.[2][3] 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.[4] She won the British 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]
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^Sethi, Sunil (15 November 1984). "Book review: Anita Desai's 'In Custody'". India Today. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
^"Booker prize winners, shortlists and judges". The Guardian. 10 October 2008. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
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