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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 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2024). Anita Nair is the 7,168th most popular writer (up from 7,184th in 2024), the 1,310th most popular biography from India (up from 1,382nd in 2019) and the 144th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anita Nair ranks 7,170 out of 7,302. Before her are Szczepan Sadurski, Mamunul Haque, Eka Kurniawan, Sefi Atta, Krisztina Tóth, Bryan Konietzko, Goran Vojnović, and Natalka Sniadanko. After her are Shashi Deshpande, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Gayle Forman, and Aka Morchiladze.

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Among people born in 1966, Anita Nair ranks 922. Before her are Gilles Delion, Éric Caravaca, Markku Uusipaavalniemi, Juan Antonio Orenga, Sandra Schumacher, and Kim Pan-keun. After her are Alison Sydor, Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Rachel Dratch, Michael Irvin, Vinny Del Negro, and Jeff Tremaine.

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In India

Among people born in India, Anita Nair ranks 1,310 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 144. Before her are Kamala Markandaya (1924), Gita Mehta (1943), Krishna Hutheesing (1907), Ram Swarup (1920), Pankaj Mishra (1969), and Sanal Edamaruku (1955). After her are Shashi Deshpande (1938), Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956), K. R. Meera (1970), Ramachandra Guha (1958), Sushmita Banerjee (1964), and Meena Alexander (1951).

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