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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.
In an initial review for India Today, Jyoti Arora wrote "A certain starkness of vision, an uncompromising realism and superbly evocative images are immediately striking in the novel." [6] For Salon, Sylvia Brownrigg wrote, Fasting, Feasting is a novel not of plot but of comparison. In beautifully detailed prose Desai draws the foods and ...
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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.
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 ...
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]