1. Anita Desai Anita Desai was born in Mussoorie, a hill station north of Delhi, as the daughter of a D.N. Mazumdar, a Bengali businessman, and the former Toni Nime, http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/desai.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Anita Desai (b. 1937) - formerly Anita Mazumdar Indian novelist and short story writer, especially noted for her sensitive portrayal of the inner life of her female characters. Several of Desai's novels explore tensions between family members and the alienation of middle-class women. In her later novels Desai has dealt with such themes as German anti-Semitism, the demise of traditions, and Western stereotypical views of India. "Even though his cigarette stank - it was a local one, wrapped in a tendu leaf, fierce enough to make his head swim - he could smell the distinctive Indian odour - of dung, both of cattle and men, of smoke from the village hearts, of cattle food and cattle urine, of dust, of pungent food cooking, of old ragged clothes washed without soap and put out to dry, the aroma of poverty." (from Baumgartner's Bombay Anita Desai was born in Mussoorie, a hill station north of Delhi, as the daughter of a D.N. Mazumdar, a Bengali businessman, and the former Toni Nime, of German origin. She began to write in English at the age of seven, and published her first story at the age of nine. Desai was educated in Delhi at Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School and Miranda House, Delhi University, where she received in 1957 a B.A. in English literature. In the following year she married Ashvin Desai, a businessman; they had four children.

2. Anita Desai Anita Desai at www.contemporarywriters.com Novelist, short-story writer and children s author Anita Desai was born in 1937 in Mussoorie, India. http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth124

3. Anita Desai - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia She recalls that as children they were taken to Thal (near Alibaug) for weekends, and this is where Anita Desai set her novel Village by the Sea (3). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Desai

Anita Desai From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards Please improve this article if you can. (January 2008) Anita Desai Born June 24 Mussoorie India Occupation ... Indian Writing period – present Influenced Kiran Desai Anita Mazumdar Desai (born June 24 ) is an Indian novelist and Emeritus John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . She has been shortlisted for the Booker prize three times. Her daughter, the author Kiran Desai , is the winner of the 2006 Booker prize Contents Background Career Film Awards ... edit Background Born as Anita Mazumdar to a German mother, Toni Nime, and a Bengali businessman, D. N. Mazumdar ( ) in Mussoorie India . She grew up speaking German at home and Bengali Urdu Hindi and English outside the house. She first learned to read and write in English at school and as a result it became her "literary language" ( ). Despite German being her first language she did not visit Germany until later in life as an adult. She was a student at Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School in Delhi and received her B.A. in English literature in 1957 from the

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5. Anita Desai --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Anita Desai Englishlanguage Indian novelist and author of children s books, considered India s premier imagist http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9096106/Anita-Desai

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8. A Brief Biography Of Anita Desai Anita Desai was born June 24, 1937 in India to a German mother and an Indian father. Although she now resides in South Hadley, Massachusetts, http://www.postcolonialweb.org/india/desai/desaibio.html

A Brief Biography of Anita Desai Melissa Culross '92 (EL 34, 1991) Anita Desai was born June 24, 1937 in India to a German mother and an Indian father. Although she now resides in South Hadley, Massachusetts, teaching writing at Mount Holyoke College, she is a member of the Advisory Board for English in New Delhi. Desai writes in English, saying, "I first learned English when I went to school. It was the first language that I learned to read and write, so it became my literary language. Languages tend to proliferate around one in India, and one tends to pick up and use whatever is at hand. It makes one realize each language has its own distinct genius." Her family spoke German at home and Hindi to their friends. Desai's work is part of a new style of writing to come out of India which is not nearly as conservative as Indian writing has been in the past. One concern that is part of her work, especially the novel Baumgartner's Bombay , is that about foreignness and dividedness. Desai grew up during World War II and could see the anxiety her German mother was experiencing about the situation and her family in Germany. After the war when she realized the Germany she had known was devasted, her mother never returned there, nor had any desire to return. Anita herself did not visit until she was an adult. [Information from Contemporary Authors and the New York Times Book Review Anoop Sarkar's Desai chronology (University of Pennsylvania website)

9. Anita Desai Anita Desai (originally Anita Mazumdar) was born to a German mother and an Indian father in Mussoorie, India, in 1937. When she was a child, http://www.literaturfestival.com/bios1_3_6_232.html

home sitemap search deutsch ... Contact © Bernd O. Schmidt Anita Desai India Guest of the ilb 2003 Anita Desai (originally Anita Mazumdar) was born to a German mother and an Indian father in Mussoorie, India, in 1937. When she was a child, German was spoken at home and Hindi outside of the family. However, the language she learned to read and write in was English, which is also the language in which she publishes her works. She knew that she wanted to be a writer from a very early age and at age 9 she published her first short story. After studying English at the University of New Delhi, she completely dedicated herself to writing. She has published novels, short stories, and children’s books. Desai says that she writes to show what is fundamentally important, to discover the truth which has been buried over by so-called reality. If early in her career Desai still based her work on classic British and Russian writers like E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Tchechov, and Dostoyevski, later she increasingly took the concentration and intensity of poetry as her model. Her prose is concise and clear; it is characterized by a certain soberness and distance to the fictional events. Anita Desai has received many prizes and has been nominated thrice for the Booker Prize. She lives in India and the U.S., where she teaches Creative Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. © international literature festival berlin A B C D ... Z select country Albania Angola Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Bosnia

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This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Anita Desai AKA Anita Mazumdar Born: 24-Jun Birthplace: Mussoorie, India Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: Asian/Indian Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Novelist Nationality: India Executive summary: Cry, the Peacock Father: (Bengali) Mother: (German, Jewish) Husband: (four children) Daughter: Kiran Desai (author, b. 1971) High School: Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School, Delhi University: BA English, University of Delhi (1957) Professor: Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Royal Society of Literature American Academy of Arts and Letters Author of books: Cry, the Peacock , novel) Bye, Bye Blackbird , novel) Where Shall We Go This Summer? , novel) Fire on the Mountain , novel) Clear Light of Day , novel) The Village by the Sea , juvenile) In Custody , novel) Baumgartner's Bombay , novel) Journey to Ithaca , novel) Fasting, Feasting , novel) Diamond Dust and Other Stories , short stories) The Zig Zag Way , novel) Do you know something we don't?

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13. Pushkar And Anita Desai: The Best Of New York Times Indian author Anita Desai (featured in 1989) and an interesting photograph of the The article on writer Anita desai anita Desai Delhi, October I, 1989 http://www.tourismofindia.com/newsletter/newyork.htm

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