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Anita Desai

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Bio

Anita Desai is a novelist, short-story writer, and author of children’s books. She was born in Mussoorie, India, and studied at Delhi University. Desai is the author of several novels, including Fire on the Mountain, as well as Clear Light of DayIn Custody, and Fasting, Feasting, each of which was short-listed for the Booker Prize. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and of Girton College, Cambridge and Clare Hall, Cambridge. Desai is the John E. Burchard Professor of Writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Anita Desai Books

Rosarita book cover

Rosarita

Anita Desai
The Village by the Sea book cover

The Village by the Sea

Anita Desai
At the End of the Century book cover

At the End of the Century

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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Clear Light of Day

Anita Desai
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The Zigzag Way

Anita Desai
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Translator Translated

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The Artist of Disappearance

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The Museum of Final Journeys

Anita Desai
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Diamond Dust

Anita Desai
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Fasting, Feasting

Anita Desai
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