Anita Desai is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E.Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times; she received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Academy of Letters; she won the British Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea.
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