Anita Desai
Autor(a) de Fasting, Feasting
About the Author
Anita Desai was born in Mussoorie, India, in 1937 of Indian and German parentage. Her works focus on relationships and family life in India, particularly the problems of women in Indian society. She has written for both adults and children, winning the Winifred Holtby Prize from the Royal Society mostrar mais of Literature for Fire on the Mountain (1977) and the Guardian Prize for Children's Fiction for her novel The Village by the Sea (1982). Among her numerous other honors is a Literary Lion Award from the New York Public Library in 1993. Desai came to America in 1987. She has taught at Mount Holyoke College, Baruch College, and Smithe College. Desai is currently Emeritus John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at MIT. (Bowker Author Biography) Anita Desai was born & educated in India. Among her many published works are "Fasting, Feasting" (a finalist for the 1999 Booker Prize), "Baumgartner's Bombay," "In Custody," "Games at Twilight," & "Diamond Dust." Her awards & honors include the Alberto Moravia Award, the National Academy of Letters Award, & the Winifred Holtby Prize of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches writing at MIT. (Publisher Provided) mostrar menos
Obras por Anita Desai
Das Dorf am Meer 2 exemplares
Royalty: Five Hours to Simla 2 exemplares
Translator Translated 2 exemplares
zikzaklı yol 1 exemplar
"The Rooftop Dwellers" 1 exemplar
Spiele im Zwielicht : Kurzgeschichten 1 exemplar
Desai Anita 1 exemplar
The Museum of Final Journeys 1 exemplar
Games at Twilight [short fiction] 1 exemplar
An Autobiography 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Other Voices, Other Vistas: Short Stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America (1992) — Contribuidor — 187 exemplares
The Writer on Her Work, Volume II: New Essays in New Territory (1730) — Contribuidor — 124 exemplares
Korter dan kort de beste kortste verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur (1993) — Contribuidor — 28 exemplares
In Custody [1994 film] — Original book — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Desai, Anita
- Nome legal
- Mazumdar, Anita (born)
- Data de nascimento
- 1937-06-24
Mussoorie, India - Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- India
- Local de nascimento
- Mussoorie, India
- Locais de residência
- Delhi, India
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Mussoorie, India (birth) - Educação
- Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School, Delhi
Delhi University - Ocupações
- novelist
teacher (writing program ∙ M.I.T.)
children's writer - Relações
- Desai, Kiran (daughter)
- Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1992)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Royal Society of Literature Benson Medal
Royal Society of Literature (Fellow)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Fellow)
Fellow, Girton College, University of Cambridge, Uk
Neil Gunn Prize (1993)
Alberto Moravia Prize for Literature (2000) (mostrar todos 7)
Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge - Agente
- Deborah Rogers (Rogers, Coleridge & White)
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Booker Prize (3)
Big Jubilee List (1)
Unmarried women (1)
My TBR (1)
Female Author (2)
Indian Diaspora (1)
AP Lit (1)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 33
- Also by
- 23
- Membros
- 4,146
- Popularidade
- #6,074
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 111
- ISBN
- 225
- Línguas
- 14
- Marcado como favorito
- 12