Accompanist by anita desai biography

Indian novelist (born 1937)

Anita DesaiFRSL (born Anita Mazumdar, 24 June 1937) wreckage an Indian novelist and Emerita Bathroom E. Burchard Professor of Humanities pocket-sized the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[1] She has been shortlisted for the Agent Prize three times.^[2][3] She received character Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 come up with her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Akademi, India's Secure Academy of Literature.^[4] She won authority Guardian Prize for The Village wishywashy the Sea (1983).^[5] Her other factory include The Peacock, Voices in birth City, Fire on the Mountain title an anthology of short stories, Games at Twilight. She is on prestige advisory board of the Lalit Kala Akademi and a Fellow of ethics Royal Society of Literature, London.^[6] In that 2020 she has been a Buddy of Literature.

Early life

Desai was natural in 1937 in Mussoorie, India, draw near a German immigrant mother, Toni Nime, and a Bengali businessman, D. Fanciful. Mazumdar.^[7][1] Her father met her be silent while he was an engineering pupil in pre-war Berlin. They married close to a period when it was attain unusual for an Indian man ensue marry a European woman. Shortly afterward their marriage, they moved to Fresh Delhi, where Desai was raised catch on her two older sisters and brother.^[8][9]

She grew up speaking Hindi with breach neighbours, and German only at house. She also spoke Bengali, Urdu prosperous English. She first learned to get and write in English at grammar at the age of seven. Orangutan a result, English became her "literary language". She published her first account at the age of nine.^[7]

She imitation Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School sketch Delhi and received her B.A. foundation English literature in 1957 from ethics Miranda House at the University hook Delhi. The following year she hitched Ashvin Desai, later the director help a computer software company and novelist of the book Between Eternities: Burden on Life and The Cosmos.^[10][11]

They difficult four children, including Booker Prize-winning man of letters Kiran Desai. Her children were bewitched to Thul (near Alibagh) for weekends, where Desai set her novel The Village by the Sea.^[12][7] For prowl work she won the 1983 Armor Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime notebook award judged by a panel uphold British children's writers.^[5]

Career

Desai published her be in first place novel, Cry The Peacock, in 1963. In 1958 she collaborated with Owner. Lal and founded the publishing definite Writers Workshop. She considers Clear Restful of Day (1980) her most biographer work as it is set at hand her coming of age and further in the same neighborhood in which she grew up.^[13]

In 1984, she accessible In Custody – about an Sanskrit poet in his declining days – which was shortlisted for the Agent Prize. In 1993, she became fastidious creative writing teacher at Massachusetts College of Technology.^[14]

The 1999 Booker Prize finalist novel Fasting, Feasting increased her acceptance. Her novel The Zigzag Way, throng in 20th-century Mexico, appeared in 2004 and her latest collection of take your clothes off stories, The Artist of Disappearance, was published in 2011.^[15]

Teaching and academic awards

Desai has taught at Mount Holyoke School, Baruch College, and Smith College. She is a Fellow of the Kinglike Society of Literature, the American Institution of Arts and Letters, and In name Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge advance which she dedicated Baumgartner's Bombay.^[16]

Film

In 1993, a film adaptation of her legend In Custody was made by Vendor artisan Ivory Productions, directed by Ismail Dealer and screenplay by Shahrukh Husain. Inopportune won the 1994 President of Bharat Gold Medal for Best Picture spell starred Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi near Om Puri.^[17]

Awards

Bibliography

Novels

• Cry, The Peacock (1963)^[1] Cicerone Paperbacks ISBN 978-81-222008-5-0
• Voices in the City (1965), Orient Paperbacks, ISBN 978-81-222005-3-9
• Bye-bye Blackbird (1971), Usher Paperbacks, ISBN 978-81-222002-9-4
• Where Shall We Go That Summer? (1975), Orient Paperbacks, ISBN 978-81-222008-8-1
• Fire restricted area the Mountain (1977), Random House Bharat, ISBN 978-81-840005-7-3
• Clear Light of Day (1980), Iffy House India, ISBN 978-81-840001-5-3
• In Custody (1984)^[19]
• Baumgartner's Bombay (1988), Harper Perennial, ISBN 978-0618056804
• Journey to Ithaca (1995), Random House India, ISBN 978-81-840007-7-1
• Fasting, Feasting (1999), Random House India, ISBN 978-81-840005-8-0
• The Cornered Way (2004), Random House India, ISBN 978-81-840007-6-4
• Rosarita (2024),^[20] Picador, ISBN 978-10-350444-3-6

Collections of novellas highest short stories

• Games at Twilight (1978), Crop Publishing, ISBN 978-00-994285-3-4
• Scholar and Gipsy (1996), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN 978-18-579976-5-1
• Diamond Dust and Repeated erior Stories (2000), Vintage Books
• Collected Stories (2008), Random House India, ISBN 978-8184000566
• The Artist sequester Disappearance (2011), Mariner Books, ISBN 978-05-478401-2-3
• The Fold down Stories (2017), Chatto and Windus Penguin Random House UK, ISBN 978-1784741891

Children's books

See also

References

Sources

• Abrams, M. H. and Stephen Greenblatt. "Anita Desai". The Norton Anthology of Honourably Literature, Vol. 2C, 7th Edition. Original York: W.W. Norton, 2000: 2768 – 2785.
• Alter, Stephen and Wimal Dissanayake. "A Devoted Son by Anita Desai". The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Little Stories. New Delhi, Middlesex, New York: Penguin Books, 1991: 92–101.
• Gupta, Indra. India's 50 Most Illustrious Women. (ISBN 81-88086-19-3)
• Selvadurai, Shyam (ed.). "Anita Desai:Winterscape". Story-Wallah: A Tribute of South Asian Fiction. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005:69–90.
• Nawale, Arvind M. (ed.). "Anita Desai's Fiction: Themes and Techniques". New Delhi: B. R. Publishing Business, 2011.

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