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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 (1983). Her other works include 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.
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GenderFemale
Birthday1937-06-24 (87 years old)
Birth PlaceMussoorie, India
ReligionHinduism
ChildrenKiran Desai
CitizenshipsIndia
Awardshonorary degree of the University of Leeds, Padma Bhushan in literature & education, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Padma Shri in literature and education, Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, Sahitya Akademi Award
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