Anita Desai

Anita Desai

Anita Desai, born Anita Mazumdar is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. 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. She won the British Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea.

From *.wikipedia.org,
General Info
.
Female
Date of Birth
June 24th, 1937
Age
88
Birth Place
India
Star Sign
Cancer
Social Networks , Links
Interest
Loading Chart...
Relatives
Lists
    index: 1x 0.027708053588867s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.02510404586792s
t_/pages/fms-person-json: 1x 0.025070905685425s
t_/blocks/person-card-json: 1x 0.014679193496704s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.009660005569458s
headline: 6x 0.0078892707824707s
router_page: 1x 0.0019049644470215s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.0010640621185303s
head-facts: 1x 0.001039981842041s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.00053501129150391s
t_/common/searcher-result: 1x 1.2874603271484E-5s
----- END OF DUMP (2026-04-23 23:49:04)  -----