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Anita Desai


India (b.1937)
Mother of Kiran Desai

Born and educated in India, Anita Desai is the author of many novels and short stories, and has three times been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and though she lives in New York State, each year she spends time in India and Cambridge UK. In Custody was filmed by Merchant Ivory.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
July 2024

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Rosarita
 
Novels
   Cry, the Peacock (1963)
   Voices in the City (1965)
   Bye-Bye, Blackbird (1968)
   The Peacock Garden (1974)
   Where Shall We Go This Summer? (1975)
   Fire on the Mountain (1976)
   Clear Light of Day (1980)
   The Village By the Sea (1982)
   In Custody (1984)
   Baumgartner's Bombay (1988)
   Journey to Ithaca (1995)
   Fasting, Feasting (1999)
   The Zigzag Way (2004)
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Collections
   Games At Twilight (1978)
   Scholar and Gypsy (1996)
   Diamond Dust (2000)
   The Artist of Disappearance (2011)
   The Complete Stories (2017)
   Collected Stories (2021)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Rosarita (2024)
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Non fiction show
 
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Anita Desai recommends
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In the City by the Sea (1998)
Kamila Shamsie
"Lively, playful, provocative."

Anthologies containing stories by Anita Desai
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Life (2013)
Great Short Stories for Women by Women
edited by
Victoria Hislop

Awards
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1980) : Clear Light of Day
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1984) : In Custody
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1999) : Fasting, Feasting
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2005) : The Zigzag Way
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book nominee (2012) : The Artist of Disappearance


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