biography
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Desai, Anita
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née Mazumdar
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pronunciation:
[desiy]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1937– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Mussoorie, N India. She studied at Delhi University, and her works include novels for adults and children and short stories. Clear Light of Day (1980) and In Custody (1980) were both short-listed for the Booker Prize, and The Village by the Sea won the Guardian Award for children's fiction in 1982. Later novels include Baumgartner's Bombay (1988), Journey to Ithaca (1995), and Fasting, Feasting (1999), which was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Her short stories, Diamond Dust, appeared in 2000. |
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