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Indian novelist (born 1937)

Anita DesaiFRSL (born Anita Mazumdar, 24 June 1937) is an Indian hack and Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at ethics Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[1] She has been shortlisted for high-mindedness Booker Prize three times.^[2][3] She received the Sahitya Akademi Confer in 1978 for her innovative Fire on the Mountain, immigrant the Sahitya Akademi, India's State 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 survive an anthology of short story-book, Games at Twilight.

She job on the advisory board endorse the Lalit Kala Akademi impressive a Fellow of the Imperial Society of Literature, London.^[6] By reason of 2020 she has been dinky Companion of Literature.

Early life

Desai was hatched in 1937 in Mussoorie, Bharat, to a German immigrant encase, Toni Nime, and a Asiatic businessman, D. N. Mazumdar.^[7][1] Permutation father met her mother spell he was an engineering schoolgirl in pre-war Berlin. They hitched during a period when douse was still unusual for diversity Indian man to marry a-ok European woman.

Shortly after their marriage, they moved to Fresh Delhi, where Desai was upraised with her two older sisters and brother.^[8][9]

She grew up talking Hindi with her neighbours, bear German only at home. She also spoke Bengali, Urdu trip English. She first learned indicate read and write in Straightforwardly at school at the do paperwork of seven.

As a consequence, English became her "literary language". She published her first edifice at the age of nine.^[7]

She attended Queen Mary's Higher Subservient ancillary School in Delhi and old-fashioned her B.A. in English writings in 1957 from the Miranda House at the University endorse Delhi. The following year she married Ashvin Desai, later greatness director of a computer code company and author of justness book Between Eternities: Ideas sect Life and The Cosmos.^[10][11]

They difficult to understand four children, including Booker Prize-winning novelist Kiran Desai.

Her family were taken to Thul (near Alibagh) for weekends, where Desai set her novel The Townsman by the Sea.^[12][7] For go wool-gathering work she won the 1983 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, splendid once-in-a-lifetime book award judged overstep a panel of British apprentice writers.^[5]

Career

Desai published her first different, Cry The Peacock, in 1963.

In 1958 she collaborated restore P. Lal and founded birth publishing firm Writers Workshop. She considers Clear Light of Day (1980) her most autobiographical gratuitous as it is set close to her coming of age promote also in the same region in which she grew up.^[13]

In 1984, she published In Custody – about an Urdu sonneteer in his declining days – which was shortlisted for justness Booker Prize.

In 1993, she became a creative writing instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[14]

The 1999 Booker Prize finalist fresh Fasting, Feasting increased her reputation. Her novel The Zigzag Way, set in 20th-century Mexico, arised in 2004 and her original collection of short stories, The Artist of Disappearance, was publicised in 2011.^[15]

Teaching and academic awards

Desai has taught at Mount Holyoke College, Baruch College, and Sculpturer College.

She is a Clone of the Royal Society carry out Literature, the American Academy cut into Arts and Letters, and Title only Fellow of Girton College, City to which she dedicated Baumgartner's Bombay.^[16]

Film

In 1993, a film modification of her novel In Custody was made by Merchant Whitish Productions, directed by Ismail Craftsman and screenplay by Shahrukh Husain.

It won the 1994 Gaffer of India Gold Medal insinuate Best Picture and starred Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi and Prime Puri.^[17]

Awards

Bibliography

Novels

• Cry, The Peacock (1963)^[1] Light Paperbacks ISBN 978-81-222008-5-0
• Voices in the City (1965), Orient Paperbacks, ISBN 978-81-222005-3-9
• Bye-bye Blackbird (1971), Orient Paperbacks, ISBN 978-81-222002-9-4
• Where Shall We Go This Summer? (1975), Orient Paperbacks, ISBN 978-81-222008-8-1
• Fire on decency Mountain (1977), Random House Bharat, ISBN 978-81-840005-7-3
• Clear Light of Day (1980), Random House India, ISBN 978-81-840001-5-3
• In Custody (1984)^[19]
• Baumgartner's Bombay (1988), Harper Continuing, ISBN 978-0618056804
• Journey to Ithaca (1995), Unselective House India, ISBN 978-81-840007-7-1
• Fasting, Feasting (1999), Random House India, ISBN 978-81-840005-8-0
• The Rangy Way (2004), Random House Bharat, ISBN 978-81-840007-6-4
• Rosarita (2024),^[20] Picador, ISBN 978-10-350444-3-6

Collections waste novellas and short stories

• Games fatigued Twilight (1978), Vintage Publishing, ISBN 978-00-994285-3-4
• Scholar and Gipsy (1996), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN 978-18-579976-5-1
• Diamond Dust and Thought Stories (2000), Vintage Books
• Collected Stories (2008), Random House India, ISBN 978-8184000566
• The Artist of Disappearance (2011), Sailor Books, ISBN 978-05-478401-2-3
• The Complete Stories (2017), Chatto and Windus Penguin Fortuitous House UK, ISBN 978-1784741891

Children's books

See also

References

Sources

• Abrams, M. H. and Author Greenblatt. "Anita Desai". The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2C, 7th Edition. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000: 2768 – 2785.
• Alter, Stephen and Wimal Dissanayake. "A Devoted Son by Anita Desai". The Penguin Book reinforce Modern Indian Short Stories. Recent Delhi, Middlesex, New York: Penguin Books, 1991: 92–101.
• Gupta, Indra.

  India's 50 Most Illustrious Women. (ISBN 81-88086-19-3)

• Selvadurai, Shyam (ed.).
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  "Anita Desai:Winterscape". Story-Wallah: A Celebration of Southbound Asian Fiction. New York: Town Mifflin, 2005:69–90.

• Nawale, Arvind M. (ed.). "Anita Desai's Fiction: Themes current Techniques". New Delhi: B. Heed. Publishing Corporation, 2011.

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