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Bookmark or Share- Anita Desai | The Booker PrizesAnita 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 novels and short stories. She is the Emerita John E Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and ...
- Rosarita — Anita Desai’s tantalising tale of memory, family and fantasyRosarita — Anita Desai’s tantalising tale of memory, family and fantasy. After a 13-year hiatus, the author returns with a tender novella about the possibilities of an imagined life. © Dóra...
- Anita Desai Biography | List of Works, Study Guides & EssaysAnita Desai (née Mazumbar) is a critically lauded 20th-century writer, and her novels on the experiences and inner lives of Indian men and women are known for their compassion, eloquence, and lucid prose.
- Anita Desai | Fiction Writer, Novelist, Short Story Writer | BritannicaAnita Desai (born June 24, 1937, Mussoorie, India) is an English-language Indian novelist and author of children’s books who excels in evoking character and mood through visual images ranging from the meteorologic to the botanical.
- Desai, Anita - Royal Society of LiteratureNovelist, short-story writer and children’s author Anita Desai was born in 1937 in Mussoorie, India. She was educated at Delhi University. Her novels include Fire on the Mountain (1977), which won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and Clear Light of Day (1980), In Custody (1984) and Fasting, Feasting (1999), each of which was shortlisted ...
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