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Anita Desai

1937 - Today

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Anita Desai (born Anita Mazumdar, 24 June 1937) is an Indian novelist and Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Literature. She won the Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea (1983). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anita Desai is the 5,831st most popular writer (down from 5,552nd in 2019), the 809th most popular biography from India (down from 710th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anita Desai ranks 5,831 out of 7,302. Before her are Margaret Mahy, Derrick Jensen, Olavi Paavolainen, Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Kay Redfield Jamison, and José Santos Chocano. After her are Curt Siodmak, Goffredo Parise, André Bjerke, Atis Kronvalds, John Varley, and Simo Puupponen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Anita Desai ranks 477. Before her are Alv Gjestvang, Svante Thuresson, Alberto Sainz, Archibald MacKinnon, Magic Slim, and Louis Neefs. After her are Donald Dewar, Emiliano Rodríguez, James Carlisle, Ron Leibman, David Seidler, and Benny Paret.

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In India

Among people born in India, Anita Desai ranks 809 out of 1,861. Before her are Verghese Kurien (1921), Asha Parekh (1942), Udit Narayan (1955), Ali Akbar Khan (1922), Har Dayal (1884), and Mohan Bhagwat (1950). After her are Yogi Adityanath (1972), Sachin Tendulkar (1973), S. M. Krishna (1932), J. H. C. Whitehead (1904), Sudeep (1973), and Vijay Mallya (1955).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Anita Desai ranks 102. Before her are K. Shivaram Karanth (1902), Altaf Hussain Hali (1837), Swarnakumari Devi (1855), Varsha Adalja (1940), Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775), and Nirmal Verma (1929). After her are Cornelia Sorabji (1866), Roshanara Begum (1617), Ismat Chughtai (1915), Fareed Zakaria (1964), Saroo Brierley (1981), and Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872).

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