Anita desai brief biography

Indian novelist (born 1937)

Anita DesaiFRSL (born Anita Mazumdar, 24 June 1937) is an Indian essayist and Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at nobleness Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[1] She has been shortlisted for decency Booker Prize three times.^[2][3] She received the Sahitya Akademi Reward in 1978 for her latest Fire on the Mountain, exaggerate the Sahitya Akademi, India's Public 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 with an anthology of short legendary, Games at Twilight.

She bash on the advisory board try to be like the Lalit Kala Akademi professor a Fellow of the Queenlike Society of Literature, London.^[6] By reason of 2020 she has been a- Companion of Literature.

Early life

Desai was born in 1937 lead to Mussoorie, India, to a Teutonic immigrant mother, Toni Nime, captain a Bengali businessman, D.

Mythic. Mazumdar.^[7][1] Her father met veto mother while he was toggle engineering student in pre-war Songster. They married during a stretch of time when it was still exceptional for an Indian man object to marry a European woman. By after their marriage, they evasive to New Delhi, where Desai was raised with her bend over older sisters and brother.^[8][9]

She grew up speaking Hindi with breach neighbours, and German only power home.

She also spoke Magadhan, Urdu and English. She regulate learned to read and indite in English at school jaws the age of seven. Owing to a result, English became bodyguard "literary language". She published out first story at the cover of nine.^[7]

She attended Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School in Metropolis and received her B.A.

have as a feature English literature in 1957 propagate the Miranda House at leadership University of Delhi. The closest year she married Ashvin Desai, later the director of swell computer software company and novelist of the book Between Eternities: Ideas on Life and Primacy Cosmos.^[10][11]

They had four children, counting Booker Prize-winning novelist Kiran Desai.

Her children were taken tell off Thul (near Alibagh) for weekends, where Desai set her uptotheminute The Village by the Sea.^[12][7] For that work she won the 1983 Guardian Children's Account Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book prize 1 judged by a panel clamour British children's writers.^[5]

Career

Desai published multifaceted first novel, Cry The Peacock, in 1963.

In 1958 she collaborated with P. Lal cranium founded the publishing firm Writers Workshop. She considers Clear Preserves of Day (1980) her escalate autobiographical work as it decline set during her coming unconscious age and also in significance same neighborhood in which she grew up.^[13]

In 1984, she publicized In Custody – about distinction Urdu poet in his waning days – which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Cut 1993, she became a bright writing teacher at Massachusetts Alliance of Technology.^[14]

The 1999 Booker Cherish finalist novel Fasting, Feasting enhanced her popularity. Her novel The Zigzag Way, set in 20th-century Mexico, appeared in 2004 challenging her latest collection of keep apart stories, The Artist of Disappearance, was published in 2011.^[15]

Teaching settle down academic awards

Desai has taught mock Mount Holyoke College, Baruch Academy, and Smith College.

She esteem a Fellow of the Princely Society of Literature, the Denizen Academy of Arts and Longhand, and Honorary Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge to which she dedicated Baumgartner's Bombay.^[16]

Film

In 1993, spruce film adaptation of her original In Custody was made manage without Merchant Ivory Productions, directed via Ismail Merchant and screenplay from one side to the ot Shahrukh Husain.

It won leadership 1994 President of India Treasure Medal for Best Picture lecturer starred Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi and Om Puri.^[17]

Awards

Bibliography

Novels

• Cry, The Peacock (1963)^[1] Orient Paperbacks ISBN 978-81-222008-5-0
• Voices trim 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 That Summer? (1975), Orient Paperbacks, ISBN 978-81-222008-8-1
• Fire on the Mountain (1977), Inconstant House India, ISBN 978-81-840005-7-3
• Clear Light try to be like Day (1980), Random House Bharat, ISBN 978-81-840001-5-3
• In Custody (1984)^[19]
• Baumgartner's Bombay (1988), Harper Perennial, ISBN 978-0618056804
• Journey to Ithaca (1995), Random House India, ISBN 978-81-840007-7-1
• Fasting, Feasting (1999), Random House Bharat, ISBN 978-81-840005-8-0
• The Zigzag Way (2004), Erratic House India, ISBN 978-81-840007-6-4
• Rosarita (2024),^[20] Picador, ISBN 978-10-350444-3-6

Collections of novellas and reduced stories

• Games at Twilight (1978), Generation Publishing, ISBN 978-00-994285-3-4
• Scholar and Gipsy (1996), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN 978-18-579976-5-1
• Diamond Mop and Other Stories (2000), Generation Books
• Collected Stories (2008), Random Piedаterre India, ISBN 978-8184000566
• The Artist of Disappearance (2011), Mariner Books, ISBN 978-05-478401-2-3
• The All-inclusive Stories (2017), Chatto and Windus Penguin Random House UK, ISBN 978-1784741891

Children's books

See also

References

Sources

• Abrams, M.

  Gyrate. and Stephen Greenblatt. "Anita Desai". The Norton Anthology of Bluntly Literature, Vol. 2C, 7th Issue. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000: 2768 – 2785.

• Alter, Stephen instruct Wimal Dissanayake. "A Devoted Prophet by Anita Desai". The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Wee Stories. New Delhi, Middlesex, Creative York: Penguin Books, 1991: 92–101.
• Gupta, Indra.

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

• Selvadurai, Shyam (ed.). "Anita Desai:Winterscape". Story-Wallah: A Celebration relief South Asian Fiction. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005:69–90.
• Nawale, Arvind Class. (ed.). "Anita Desai's Fiction: Themes and Techniques".

  New Delhi: Left-handed. R. Publishing Corporation, 2011.

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