Anita Desai Indian Writer
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Anita Desai is a 86 year old Indian Writer born on 24th June, 1937 in Mussoorie, India. Her zodiac sign is Cancer
Anita Desai is a member of the following lists: 1937 births, American novelists and Recipients of the Padma Shri.
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First Name |
Anita
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Last Name |
Desai
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Birthday |
24th June, 1937
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Birthplace |
Mussoorie, India
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Build |
Average
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Eye Color |
Brown - Dark
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Hair Color |
Salt and Pepper
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Zodiac Sign |
Cancer
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Sexuality |
Straight
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Religion |
Hindu
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Ethnicity |
Multiracial
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Nationality |
Indian
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Occupation Text |
Writer, professor
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Occupation |
Writer
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Music Genre (Text) |
Fiction
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Anita Desai, 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. 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. 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.