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The Artist of Disappearance is a collection of novellas by Indian writer Anita Desai.It was published in the UK by Chatto & Windus in 2011, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2012.
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.
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.
Padma Desai (October 12, 1931 – April 29, 2023) was an Indian-American development economist who was the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of comparative economic systems and director of the Center for Transition Economies at Columbia University.
Writing for The New York Times, Jennifer Schuessler wrote “ It's all potentially corny stuff, but Desai pulls it together with economy and grace. And yet, despite this, the novel has the feel of being worked up from a tidbit stumbled upon in an archive or a guidebook, then trained along a trellis of neatly diagrammed meaning rather than ...
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Shantinath Kuberappa Desai (1929–1998) was one of the leading modern authors of the Navya (modernist) movement in Kannada Literature. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In most of his novels, short stories, and essays, Desai explores the challenges of a changing society and its drift from traditional values.
Under the advice of his friend Murad, an editor of a periodical devoted to Urdu literature, Deven procures a secondhand tape recorder so that he can help transcribe Urdu's early poetry, as well as conduct an interview or even write the memoirs of Nur. However, things do not happen as he expects them to.