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Anita Nair

1966 - Today

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Anita Nair (born 26 January 1966) is an Indian novelist who writes her books in English. She is best known for her novels A Better Man, Mistress, and Lessons in Forgetting. She has also written poetry, essays, short stories, crime fiction, historical fiction, romance, and children's literature, including Muezza and Baby Jaan: Stories from the Quran. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anita Nair is the 7,083rd most popular writer (up from 7,184th in 2019), the 1,306th most popular biography from India (up from 1,382nd in 2019) and the 143rd most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anita Nair ranks 7,083 out of 7,302. Before her are Szczepan Sadurski, Mamunul Haque, Eka Kurniawan, Sefi Atta, Krisztina Tóth, and Bryan Konietzko. After her are Shashi Deshpande, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Gayle Forman, Josh Schwartz, Arno Geiger, and Larry Christiansen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Anita Nair ranks 788. Before her are Karin Enström, Bill Callahan, Tadanori Koshino, Aqeela Asifi, Éric Caravaca, and Markku Uusipaavalniemi. After her are Alison Sydor, Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Rachel Dratch, Vinny Del Negro, Pauline Davis-Thompson, and Darren E. Burrows.

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In India

Among people born in India, Anita Nair ranks 1,306 out of 1,861. Before her are Sharat Saxena (1950), Rajkumar Hirani (1962), Pankaj Advani (1985), Aarya Babbar (1982), Tom Alter (1950), and Bishan Singh Bedi (1946). After her are Karun Chandhok (1984), Shashi Deshpande (1938), Siddhartha Mukherjee (1970), R. Madhavan (1970), Rituparno Ghosh (1963), and Rati Agnihotri (1960).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Anita Nair ranks 143. Before her are Shobhaa De (1948), Kamala Markandaya (1924), Gita Mehta (1943), Krishna Hutheesing (1907), Ram Swarup (1920), and Sanal Edamaruku (1955). After her are Shashi Deshpande (1938), Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956), Ramachandra Guha (1958), Sushmita Banerjee (1964), Meena Alexander (1951), and Dinesh D'Souza (1961).

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