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Anita Desai

India   (1937 - )
(Mother of Kiran Desai)
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About Anita 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.
 
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Awards
The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1980) : Clear Light of Day
The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1984) : In Custody
The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1999) : Fasting, Feasting
Orange Prize for Fiction Best Novel nominee (2005) : The Zigzag Way


Anita Desai recommends
In the City by the Sea
In the City by the Sea (1998)
Kamila Shamsie
"Lively, playful, provocative."



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