The Interview Of Anita Desai

Novelist, short-story writer and children's author Anita Desai was born in 1937 in Mussoorie, India. She was educated at Delhi University.


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Her novels include Fire on the Mountain (1977), which won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and Clear Light of Day (1980), In Custody (1984) and Fasting, Feasting (1999), each of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In Custody was made into a film by Merchant Ivory productions. Her children's book The Village by the Sea (1982), won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Girton College, Cambridge and Clare Hall, Cambridge. Her most recent novel is The Zig Zag Way (2004), set in 20th century Mexico.


Anita Desai lives in the United States, where she is the John E. Burchard Professor of Writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Author was specially invited for the READ! Singapore 2008 initiative.


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[irshadahamed100]

VILAGE BY THE SEA is one of a wondre full novel

i love the heero hari (noval)

[Hosni7777777]

hi ....i want The Village by the sea cartoon or some other movies ...can u Help me plzz by giving some links????

[aschen15]

i didn't like 'voices in the city', but 'fasting. feasting' was extraordinary, not beautiful, but haunting, with a sense of importance about it that is hard to qualify.

and she is so soft-spoken, even with a microphone, it is difficult to hear her fragile voice in a spacious gathering.

[swaratmika]

her command on grammar, her diction, her punctuations...all fair in her writing

[victorvt]

the best of them all...the zigzag way was a very powerful novel....and she is very graceful

[IndianFoodRecipes]

good video

[spanishd00d54]

I saw the movie "In Custody" the other day and it was amazing.Will checkout the novel soon.

[rahulm1987]

YUP... YOU ARE RIGHT...

[FetaSake]

She's Amazing !