BIOGRAPHY
Novelist, short-story writer and children's author Anita Desai was born in 1937 in Mussoorie, India. She was educated at Delhi University.
Her novels include Fire on the Mountain (1977), which won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and Clear Light of Day (1980), In Custody (1984) and Fasting, Feasting (1999), each of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In Custody was made into a film by Merchant Ivory productions. Her children's book The Village by the Sea (1982), won theGuardian Children's Fiction Award.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Girton College, Cambridge and Clare Hall, Cambridge. Her most recent novel isThe Zig Zag Way (2004), set in 20th century Mexico.
Anita Desai lives in the United States, where she is the John E. Burchard Professor of Writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Her novels include Fire on the Mountain (1977), which won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and Clear Light of Day (1980), In Custody (1984) and Fasting, Feasting (1999), each of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In Custody was made into a film by Merchant Ivory productions. Her children's book The Village by the Sea (1982), won theGuardian Children's Fiction Award.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Girton College, Cambridge and Clare Hall, Cambridge. Her most recent novel isThe Zig Zag Way (2004), set in 20th century Mexico.
Anita Desai lives in the United States, where she is the John E. Burchard Professor of Writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
PRIZES AND AWARDS
1978 National Academy of Letters Award Fire on the Mountain
1978 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize Fire on the Mountain
1980 Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) Clear Light of Day
1983 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize The Village by the Sea
1984 Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) In Custody
1993 Neil Gunn Prize
1999 Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) Fasting, Feasting
2000 Alberto Moravia Prize for Literature (Italy)
Selected works:
- The Peacock, 1963
- Voices in the City, 1965
- Bye-Bye, Blackbird, 1971
- The Peacock Garden, 1974
- Where Shall We Go This Summer?, 1975
- Cat on a Houseboat, 1976
- Fire on the Mountain, 1977
- Games at Twilight and Other Stories, 1978
- Clear Light of Day, 1980
- Village by the Sea, 1982
- In Custody, 1984 - film 1993, dir. by Ismail Merchant, starring Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri, screenplay by Anita Desai
- Baumgartner's Bombay, 1988
- Journey to Ithaca, 1996
- Fasting, Feasting, 1999
- Diamond Dust, 2000
- The Zigzag Way: A Novel, 2004
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