Anita Desai, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Anita Desai

Indian novelist

Date of Birth: 24-Jun-1937

Place of Birth: Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India

Profession: writer, university teacher, novelist, short story writer

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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