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Anita desai, original name anita mazumdar, born june 24, 1937, mussoorie, india, englishlanguage indian novelist and author of childrens books who excelled in evoking character and mood through visual images ranging from the meteorologic to the botanical. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Cultural collisions fascinate desai, a fiction writer of transfixing acuity who has written most often of east indian immigrants in the u. Anita desai, a recipient of many literary awards in india and abroad, and a creative writing teacher at massachusetts institute of technology since 1993, in addition to being a fellow of the royal society of literature in london and honorary fellow of the university of cambridge, has proved herself to be a major indian novelist of the post. Anita desai in custodyfirst published in 1984to alicia yerburgh with affection. With cry, the peacock, anita desai made her debut as a novelist.
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