Anita Desai
Author · 22 books
Anita Desai was born in 1937. Her published works include adult novels, children's books and short stories. She is a member of the Advisory Board for English of the National Academy of Letters in Delhi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London. Anita Mazumdar Desai is an Indian novelist and Emeritus John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker prize three times. Her daughter, the author Kiran Desai, is the winner of the 2006 Booker prize.
Books
Diamond Dust
Stories
2000
Where Shall We Go This Summer
1991
Fasting, Feasting
1999
Clear Light Of Day
1980
Rosarita
2024
Baumgartner's Bombay
1989
The Museum Of Final Journeys
A Novella
2011
Voices in the City
1965
Journey to Ithaca
1995
Scholar and gypsy
1996
Bye Bye Blackbird
1984
The Zigzag Way
2004
Translator Translated
A Novella
2011
The Complete Stories
1949
The Village by the Sea
1982
Collected Stories
2008
Cry, the Peacock
1963
Games at Twilight and Other Stories
1978
In Custody
1984
Story-Wallah
Short Fiction from South Asian Writers
2004
Fire on the Mountain
1977
The Artist of Disappearance
2011
