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Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Anita Desai

Won the Winifred Holtby account Prize for her novel Fire on the Mountain and her childrens book The colonization by the Sea (1982), won the withstander Childrens Fiction Award.Anita Desai is an Indian novelist and short story writer. She is known for her sensitive characterization of the inner feelings of her female characters. Many of Anita Desais novels explore tensions between family members and the alienation of materialistic women. In her later novels, Anita Desai wrote on varied themes such as German anti-Semitism, the demise of traditions, and Western stereotypical views of India.Anita Desai was born as Anita Mazumdar on June 24, 1937 in Mussoorie. Her mother was German and her father was Bengali. Anita Desai completed her schooling from Queen Marys higher(prenominal) Secondary School in Delhi and graduated in English publications from the University of Delhi (Miranda House).Anita Desai make her debut as novelist in 1963 with The Peacock. It was followed by Voices of the urban center (1965)- a story about three siblings and their different ways of animation in Calcutta. Her novel Fire on the Mountain (1977) won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. Anita Desais other works include Clear Light of Day (1980), In Custody (1984) and Fasting, Feasting (1999), each of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In Custody was made into a film by Merchant Ivory productions. Her childrens book The Village by the Sea (1982), won the Guardian Childrens Fiction Award. Anita Desais most fresh novel is The Zig Zag Way (2004), set in twentieth century Mexico.Anita Desai is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American honorary society of Arts and Letters, Girton College, Cambridge and Clare Hall, Cambridge. Presently, Anita lives in the United States, where she is the John E. Burchard Professor of Writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. See more at file///D/my%20research/Anita%20Desai%20Profile%20-%20Anita%20Desai%20Biograp hy%20-%20Information%20on%20Indian%20Writer%20Anita%20Desai.htmsthash.ULB7qt

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