Anita Desai
- January 10, 2024
- Novelist
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Anita Desai |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Date Of Birth | Jun 24, 1937(1937-06-24) |
| Age | 87 |
| Birthplace | Mussoorie |
| Country | India |
| Birth City | Uttarakhand |
| Horoscope | Gemini |
Anita Desai Biography
| Name | Anita Desai |
| Birthday | Jun 24 |
| Birth Year | 1937 |
| Place Of Birth | Mussoorie |
| Home Town | Uttarakhand |
| Birth Country | India |
| Birth Sign | Gemini |
| Spouse | Ashvin Desai |
| Children(s) | Kiran Desai |
Anita Desai is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on June 24, 1937 in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India. An British fiction writer who has been three times nominated in the competition for the Booker Prize, she is most well-known for her British novel that won the Guardian Prize, The Village By the Sea. As a professor at the university she was a humanities professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Her daughter, Kiran Desai , published a Booker Prize-winning work.
Alongside her husband who was a businessman, Ashvin Desai, she had four children.
Anita Desai Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Novelist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Anita Desai is one of the richest Novelist from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Anita Desai 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
She received a bachelor’s diploma in English literature at The University of Delhi in 1957.
Her novels nominated for an award comprise Clear Light of Day, In Custy and Fasting, and Feasting.
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Who is Anita Desai Dating?
According to our records, Anita Desai married to Ashvin Desai. As of December 1, 2023, Anita Desai’s is not dating anyone.
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Facts & Trivia
Anita Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Anita Desai celebrates birthday on June 24 of every year.
What was Anita Desai known for?
Anita Desai, original name Anita Mazumdar, (born June 24, 1937, Mussoorie, India), English-language Indian novelist and author of children’s books who excelled in evoking character and mood through visual images ranging from the meteorologic to the botanical.
What is Anita Desai writing style?
Her writing style is often poetic and descriptive , revolving around fiction and fantasy and the use of symbols and flashbacks. Many of her novels explore the state of middle-class women and the tensions that exist in these families.
How many times Anita Desai won Booker Prize?
6) Kiran Desai Kiran Desai’s daughter Anita Desai won the Man Booker in 2006 for her second and last novel ‘The Inheritance of Loss’.
Is Anita Desai a feminist?
So Desai is one of the best- known women writers of Indian fiction in English and she is a feminist writer who portrays women’s desire and struggle for freedom from social and traditional bondages in the patriarchal society in her novels.
Who is the mother of Indian psychological novel?
Anita Desai (born 1937) has been touted by British Writers’ A. Michael Matin as “one of the preeminent contemporary Indian novelists,” even referred to by many as the Mother of the Indian psychological novel genre.