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Anita Desai FRSL (born Anita Mazumdar, 24 June 1937) is an Indian novelist and Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [1] She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times.
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The book includes three novellas: The Museum of Final Journeys, Translator Translated and The Artist of Disappearance. Maggie Gee described the volume as a "brilliant miniature exposé of contemporary culture" in her review in The Guardian . [ 2 ]
The day after J. M. Coetzee's novel, Disgrace, was announced as the winner of the 1999 Booker Prize, in an article for The Guardian, John Sutherland, Professor of English at University College, London, leaked hints of divisions and encampments on the panel — so incurring the wrath of the other judges, who wrote furious articles of their own, lambasting him for his indiscretion.
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 ...
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.
Desai was elected prime minister, and became the first non-Congress prime minister of India. Desai was the second and the last prime minister to have been born in the nineteenth century. On the international scene, Desai holds international fame for his peace activism and created efforts to initiate peace between India and rival Pakistan. [1]
In the March/April 2006 issue of Bookmarks, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.0 out of 5) based on critic reviews, with the critical summary stating, "Maybe it's in her genes: the daughter of Indian novelist Anita Desai, Kiran Desai skips past the sophomore doldrums with this assured second novel."