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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.
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.
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.
The Inheritance of Loss is the second novel by Indian author Kiran Desai.It was first published in 2006.It won a number of awards, including the Booker Prize for that year, the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award in 2007, [1] and the 2006 Vodafone Crossword Book Award.
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The Zigzag Way is a 2004 novel by Anita Desai. The novel is about an American academic and writer who goes with his girlfriend to Mexico and rediscovers his passion for fiction writing. Summary
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 ...
In his book Desai asserts that the founders of Vijayanagar Empire never belonged to the Telugu region and the story of their captivity and conversion to Islam by the Sultan of Delhi is false. He further asserts that epigraphal evidence proves that the area around Hampi was the home of the Sangama brothers, the founding kings of the empire.