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She attended Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School in Delhi and received her B.A. in English literature in 1957 from the Miranda House at the University of Delhi. The following year she married Ashvin Desai, later the director of a computer software company and author of the book Between Eternities: Ideas on Life and The Cosmos. [10] [11]
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Weber (1898) mentioned that at the time of his writing, Mississippi had "few grounds for boasting. The list of Mississippi books is not long; the average quality is nothing. Of pure literature, of the real literature of power, we have contributed scarcely 50 pages to the world's store." [3]
The University Press of Mississippi (UPM), founded in 1970, is a university press that is sponsored by the eight state universities in Mississippi (i.e., Alcorn State University, Delta State University, Jackson State University, Mississippi State University, Mississippi University for Women, Mississippi Valley State University, University of Mississippi, and the University of Southern ...
Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize [ 1 ] and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. [ 2 ] In January 2015, The Economic Times listed her as one of 20 "most influential" global Indian women.
Cover of the first American edition of Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai (1980) Clear Light of Day is a novel published in 1980 by Indian novelist and three-time Booker Prize finalist Anita Desai . Set primarily in Old Delhi , the story describes the tensions in a post-partition Indian family, starting with the characters as adults and moving ...
English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. [ 1 ] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the fifth century, are called Old English .