21. Anita Desai: An Overview desai Image. Biography Works Postcolonial Literature History Politics Religion Science Technology http://www.usp.nus.edu.sg/post/india/desai/desaiov.html

22. VG: Artist Biography: Desai, Anita Biography, bibliography and related links on this writer born to a German mother and an Indian father, who writes in English. http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/desai_anita.html

Art Praxis Bios By Name By Date By Location ... Bios Anita Desai b. 1937 With her inner eye she saw how her own house and its particular history linked and contained her, as well as her whole family . . . giving them the soil in which to send down their roots. . . . always drawing from the same soil, the same secret darkness. That soil contained all time, past and future. . . . It was where her deepest self lived, and the deepest selves of her sisters and brothers and all those who shared that time with her. Clear Light of Day Jump to: Biography and Criticism Selected Bibliography Non-English Materials Related Links Biography / Criticism Born to a German mother and an Indian father on June 24, 1937, Anita Desai spent much of her life in New Delhi. Growing up she spoke German at home and Hindi to friends and neighbors. She first learned English when she went to school. It was the language in which she first learned to read and write, and so it became her literary language. When asked why English remains her literary language, she said, "I think it had a tremendous effect that the first thing you saw written and the first thing you ever read was English. It seemed to me the language of books. I just went on writing it because I always wanted to belong to this world of books" ( CLC Desai received a BA in English Literature and graduated with honors from the University of Delhi. She started publishing her work shortly after her marriage to Ashrin Desai on December 13, 1958.

23. Anita Desai - The New York Review Of Books Bibliography of books and articles by anita desai, from The New York Review of Books. http://www.nybooks.com/authors/456

Home Your account Current issue Archives ... NYR Books Anita Desai Anita Desai's most recent novel is The Zigzag Way . (July 2007) From the Review July 19, 2007 What If? A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories by Primo Levi, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli April 6, 2006 Pilgrim's Progress Two Lives by Vikram Seth September 22, 2005 A Shadow World Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro December 2, 2004 Backstage in the Tropics The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser June 12, 2003 Revenge Tragedy The Light of Day by Graham Swift December 19, 2002 Cards of Identity The Secret by Eva Hoffman December 21, 2000 Passion in Lahore Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid October 8, 1998 The Crack In the China Death in Summer by William Trevor March 3, 1994 Damsels in Distress Women Writing in India, Vol. II: The Twentieth Century edited by Susie Tharu, edited by K. Lalita May 27, 1993 Sitting Pretty A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth January 16, 1992 'Women Well Set Free' Women Writing in India Vol. I: 600 BC to the Early Twentieth Century edited by Susie Tharu, edited by K. Lalita

24. Anita Desai A bibliography of anita desai s books, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/anita-desai/

Fantastic Fiction Authors D Anita Desai Preferences google_ad_client = "pub-4149752303753296";google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/frames/banner.htm";google_ad_width = 468;google_ad_height = 60;google_ad_format = "468x60_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";google_ad_channel ="5061332721";google_color_border = "6699CC";google_color_bg = "003366";google_color_link = "FFFFFF";google_color_url = "AECCEB";google_color_text = "AECCEB"; Home Awards New Books Coming Soon ... Years Browse Authors A H O V ... U Anita Desai India (Mother of Kiran Desai Search Authors Search Books About Anita Desai Born and educated in India, Anita Desai is the author of many novels and short stories, and has three times been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and though she lives in New York State, each year she spends time in India and Cambridge UK. In Custody was filmed by Merchant Ivory. Novels Cry, the Peacock Voices in the City Bye-Bye, Blackbird The Peacock Garden ... The Zigzag Way Collections Games At Twilight: And Other Stories Diamond Dust: And Other Stories Non fiction Peasant Struggles in India Awards The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee : Clear Light of Day The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee : In Custody The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee : Fasting, Feasting

25. A Passage From India | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited anita desai has taken to stealing across the border from the US, . desai was born anita Mazumdar in June 1937 in Mussoorie, a Himalayan summer retreat. http://www.guardian.co.uk/booker/Story/0,2763,201690,00.html

@import url(/external/styles/global/0,,,00.css); Skip to main content Sign in Register Go to: Guardian Unlimited home UK news World news Comment is free blog Newsblog Sport blog Podcasts In pictures Video Archive search Arts and entertainment Books Business EducationGuardian.co.uk Environment Film Football Jobs Katine appeal Life and style MediaGuardian.co.uk Money Music The Observer Politics Science Shopping SocietyGuardian.co.uk Sport Talk Technology Travel Been there Audio Email services Special reports The Guardian The northerner The wrap Advertising guide Compare finance products Crossword Events / offers Feedback Garden centre GNM press office Graduate Guardian Bookshop GuardianEcostore GuardianFilms Headline service Help / contacts Information Living our values Newsroom Reader Offers Soulmates dating Style guide Syndication services Travel offers TV listings Weather Web guides Working for us Guardian Abroad Guardian Weekly Money Observer Public Learn Guardian back issues Observer back issues Guardian Professional Jobs Search: Guardian Unlimited Web Home UK Business Audio ... Quiz Search this site Tools Text-only version Send it to a friend Save story The Guardian Profile: Anita Desai A passage from India Twice Booker-listed for her novels chronicling the lives of 'failures and wrecks' in Indian society, she is shifting her gaze to the new world, where she sees parallel symptoms of dysfunction. Maya Jaggi traces a journey from provincial India to suburban America

26. Anita Desai - MSN Encarta desai, anita, born in 1937, Indian novelist who is known for her colorful and touching studies of Indian life. desai’s work is characterized by its http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761581089/Anita_Desai.html

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27. Translations For Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay For more about anita desai and other South Asian writers, see Paul Brians Modern South Asian Literature in English . Version of March 31, 1999. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/anglophone/baumgartner.html

Notes for Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay by Paul Brians Page no. German English mein Gott my God! was ist dann, wie kannst du what is it, how can you? My little mouse, my little rabbit, lovey. Meine kleine Maus, mein Hugo, Geliebter My little mouse, my Hugo, beloved Mutti Mommy Blutwurst, Leberwurst, Bratwurstwas willst du? Blood sausage, liver sausage, bratwurstwhat would you like? All pork sausages unavailable in Bombay. Coelho, Da Silva Portuguese names, the Portuguese settled early in Bombay; the others are typically Indian names. du Dummkopf stupid! baksheesh alms sahib Sir formal term of respectful address for a foreign man masala spices which cats would not like his god Zoroaster Farrokh, like many of his neighbors, is a a Parsi, a follower of the ancient Persian religion taught by the prophet (not god) Zarathustra, whose name is usually rendered "Zoroaster" in English sacred thread worn only by Brahmin men, the highest caste say they love Buddha Although Buddhism began in India, it almost entirely vanished from there centuries ago, with only remnants being absorbed into Hinduism. ashram center for meditation and worship piscine fish-like juice- wallah "Wallah" often means "vendor," as here

28. Anita Desai - Biography anita desai on IMDb Movies, TV, Celebs, and more http://media-imdb.com/name/nm0220809/bio

Now Playing Movie/TV News My Movies DVD New Releases ... search All Titles TV Episodes My Movies Names Companies Keywords Characters Quotes Bios Plots more tips SHOP ANITA DESAI DVD VHS CD IMDb ... Anita Desai Biography Quicklinks categorized by type by year by ratings by votes by TV series titles for sale by genre by keyword power search credited with biography other works contact photo gallery Top Links biography by votes awards news articles ... message board Filmographies categorized by type by year by ratings ... tv schedule Biographical biography other works publicity contact ... message board External Links official sites miscellaneous photographs sound clips ... video clips Biography for Anita Desai advertisement photos board add contact details Date of Birth 24 June Mussoorie, India Birth Name Anita Mazumdar Spouse Ashvin Desai - present) 4 children Desai (? - present) 4 children Trivia She was awarded the Italian honor of Alberto Monrovia Literature Prize in 1999 for her services and contributions to literature. She was a finalist for the Booker Price in 1980 for "Clear Light of Day," 1984 for "In Custody," and 1999 for "Fasting, Feasting.". She was awarded the Neil Gunn Price in 1993 for her services to literature.

29. Desai.shtml MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies anita desai anita desai Books include Fire on the Mountain (Heinemann, 1978), Games at Twilight http://web.mit.edu/humanistic/www/faculty/desai.html

MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies: Anita Desai ANITA DESAI John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities, Emeritus Books include Fire on the Mountain (Heinemann, 1978), Games at Twilight (Heinemann, 1979), Clear Light of Day (Heinemann, 1980), In Custody (Heinemann, 1984), Baumgartner's Bombay (Heinemann, 1988), and Journey to Ithaca (Heinemann, 1995). Clear Light of Day and In Custody were finalists for the Booker Prize of Great Britain. Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Maya Jhangiani on Tuesday, July 6, 2004

30. Indian Women  Writing In English It was third time unlucky for the AngloIndian writer anita desai since she anita desai born in 1937 in Bombay was educated in the capital city, Delhi. http://www.rigzin.freeservers.com/indoanglianlit3.htm

Free Web Hosting Provider Web Hosting E-commerce High Speed Internet ... Free Web Page Search the Web Interviews: Jhumpa Lahiri R.K. Narayan Vikram Seth David Davidar Quick Look: Anita Desai Arundhati Roy Kiran Desai Gita Mehta ... Gita Hariharan I nde x R.K. Narayan Githa Hariharan Amit Chaudhari Rabindranath Tagore ... Quiz on Indo-Anglian Literature List of winners of Literary Awards: Booker Prize Commonwealth Prize View My Guest book Sign My Guest book ANITA DESAI AND BOOKER PRIZE It was third time unlucky for the Anglo-Indian writer Anita Desai since she had been shortlisted for the coveted literary prize thrice for In Custody and Clear Light of the Day in 1980 and 1984 respectively and for Fasting and Feasting in 1999. She was actually third favorite to win it in 1999 after J.M. Coetzee and Frayn and it was eventually the South African J.M. Coetzee who won it for the second time for his book Disgrace Anita Desai born in 1937 in Bombay was educated in the capital city, Delhi. Her father was Bengali and mother a German. Her other notable books are

31. Anita Desai Writer In Custody. Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, Bio, News, Awards, Agent, Fan Sites. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220809/

Now Playing Movie/TV News My Movies DVD New Releases ... search All Titles TV Episodes My Movies Names Companies Keywords Characters Quotes Bios Plots more tips SHOP ANITA DESAI DVD VHS CD IMDb Anita Desai Quicklinks categorized by type by year by ratings by votes by TV series titles for sale by genre by keyword power search credited with biography other works contact photo gallery Top Links biography by votes awards news articles ... message board Filmographies categorized by type by year by ratings ... tv schedule Biographical biography other works publicity contact ... message board External Links official sites miscellaneous photographs sound clips ... video clips Anita Desai advertisement photos board add contact details Photos see all 2 photos Add/change photo(s) Overview Date of Birth: 24 June Mussoorie, India more Trivia: She was awarded the Italian honor of Alberto Monrovia Literature Prize... more Filmography Jump to filmography as: Writer Self Writer: In Custody (1993) (novel) (script) ... aka Hifazaat ... aka Muhafiz (India: Urdu title) TV series (book) Self: Anita Desai TV episode .... Herself

32. Goodreads | Anita Desai Get all the rants and raves about anita desai s books on Goodreads.com where you can see what your friends are reading. http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8841.Anita_Desai

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33. DesiLit : Kriti (creation) Our Guest of Honor in 2007 will be awardwinning author anita desai, Friday will include the keynote speech with Guest of Honor anita desai, http://www.desilit.org/kriti.html

DesiLit building support for South Asian and diasporic writing Home About Us Support Us Staff ... Rapid Writing Contest Kriti (creation) Chicago, IL We're delighted to announce that the 2007 Kriti Festival will be held in Chicago April 26-29th, 2007. Please mark your calendars! Kriti will be a four-day event celebrating South Asian and diaspora literature, with panel discussions, performances, readings, music and song, storytelling for kids, and much more! At our 2005 festival we had 30 visiting writers, editors and agents, and huge fun for more info on that festival, take a look at our archive here: http://www.desilit.org/kriti2005.html Our Guest of Honor in 2007 will be award-winning author Anita Desai, noted Indian novelist, short-listed for the Booker Prize three times. (Her daughter, Kiran Desai, recently won the 2006 Booker Prize.) Just a few of Anita Desai's wonderful books include Fasting, Feasting; Baumgartner's Bombay; Clear Light of Day, and In Custody (which was made into a Merchant/Ivory film, starring Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, and Om Puri). More info on Anita Desai: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Desai

34. Anita Desai Profile - Anita Desai Biography - Information On Here is a brief profile and biography of anita desai. Read for information on Indian writer anita desai. http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/anita-desai.html

35. The Hindu : New Delhi News : Anita Desai Gets Sahitya Akademi Fellowship Felicitations Sahitya Akademi Chairman Gopi Chand Narang honouring anita desai at a function held at Rabindra Bhavan in New Delhi on Friday. http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/01/stories/2007120163630300.htm

Online edition of India's National Newspaper Saturday, Dec 01, 2007 ePaper New Delhi News: ePaper Front Page National Tamil Nadu ... Engagements Advts: Retail Plus Classifieds Jobs Obituary ... New Delhi Anita Desai gets Sahitya Akademi fellowship Staff Reporter Photo: R. V. Moorthy Felicitations: Sahitya Akademi Chairman Gopi Chand Narang honouring Anita Desai at a function held at Rabindra Bhavan in New Delhi on Friday. NEW DELHI: Pointing out that some of the most lively and vital writings in English now come from the erstwhile English colonies, celebrated writer Anita Desai on Friday said there exists a large and thriving readership for Indian writers of English not only in the country but across the globe. Pointing out that English had brought with it an incredibly old and rich literature of its own, Ms. Desai said there were Indian writers who found it a wonderfully elastic, flexible and rewarding instrument of creativity. Describing the event as historic, Sahitya Akademi president Gopi Chand Narang said such fellowships are rare as a great writer had been honoured as a fellow.

36. Anita Desai Born on 24th June 1937, in Mussoorie this eminent novelist and short story writer is a Professor of Humanities, Emeritus at the Massachusatts Institute of http://www.mapsofindia.com/who-is-who/literature/anita-desai.html

India's Who is Who? About Us Contact Us Feed Back Literature ... Literature Authors > Anita Desai Anita Desai Born on 24th June 1937, in Mussoorie this eminent novelist and short story writer is a Professor of Humanities, Emeritus at the Massachusatts Institute of Technology. Born as Anita Mazumdar,the daughter of D.N. Mazumdar, a Bengali businessman and Toni Nime,who was a German, Anita received her earlier education at Delhi 's Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School. Anita was a precocious child, she started writing short stories at a very young. Her first short story was published when she was mere nine.She joined 'Miranda House' for her bachelor's degree and completed her graduation in English literature in 1957 at the age of 20. In 1958 Anita tied the nuptial knot with Ashvin Desai, a businessman. She ventured into the field of novel writing with her novel 'Cry, The Peacock', followed by 'The Voices of the City' and 'The Fire on the Mountain'. The Fire on the Mountain is based on the lives of three women residing in Kasauli and their different experiences of life. In 1980 came her famous novel, The Clear Light of Day, which bears impressions of Anita Desai's own life. This novel set in Old Delhi, is a story of a middle-class Hindu family around the time of partition of India . The story revolves around the central character, Bim (Bimla). She lives in her house with her mentally retarded brother Baba. Her sister Tara and her elder brother go away with their respective families leaving her to bear all the problems and responsibilities of the household alone. The novel is partially a trip down memory lane.

37. NPR: Kiran And Anita Desai, Generations Of Writing Kiran desai s novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize. Her mother, anita, has been shortlisted for the prize three times. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6513685

38. Anita Desai desai, anita, anita desai, fiction reading and interview with Marilyn Samuels, December 14, 1989, 1 videocassette, 30 min http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/worldlit/works/desai.htm

World Literature Program Anita Desai WORLD LITERATURE PROGRAM ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY PROGRAM Overview Director Faculty Authors and Works ... Contact Info COURSES World Literature I World Literature II Anita Desai Links to Recommended Online Resources Creighton University Campus, Local Access Resources Selected Bibliography Audiovisual Resources Links to Recommended Online Resources: Indian Literature, World Literature Program, Creighton University Creighton University Campus, Local Access Resources: Reinert Alumni Library Collections World Literature Program Library Selected Bibliography ** Desai, Anita, Clear Light of Day (1980) PR9499.3.D465 C54 Jain, Jasbir, Stairs to the Attic: The Novels of Anita Desai (1987) Jussawalla, Feroza, Family Quarrels: Towards a Criticism of Indian Writing in English (1985) Mukherjee, Meenakshi, The Twice-Born Fiction (1971)

39. Anita Desai, Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Spring 2003, Baruch College anita desai, the distinguished fiction writer, is the Spring 2003 Sidney Harman Writerin-Residence at Baruch College. Ms. desai’s novels include Cry, http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/harman/desai.html

-From Anita Desai Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence, Spring 2003 Cry The Peacock Voices in the City Bye-Bye Blackbird Where Shall We Go This Summer? Fire on the Mountain Clear Light of Day In Custody Journey to Ithaca ; and Fasting, Feasting . She is also the author of two collections of short stories, most recently Diamond Dust and Other Stories ; several books for children, including The Peacock Garden Cat on a Houseboat , and The Village by the Sea ; and the screenplay for the screen adaptation of In Custody , filmed by Merchant Ivory Productions. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in England and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Ms. Desai has been awarded numerous prizes and honors, including the Winifred Holtby Prize of the Royal Society of Literature, the Padma Sri Award from the Government of India, the Moravia Prize for Literature, and the Neil Gunn Prize for International Literature from the Scottish Arts Council. Born in Mussoorie, India, Ms. Desai is a graduate of Miranda House, University of Delhi, and is fluent in English, German, and Hindi. Her extensive teaching career includes positions as the Elizabeth Drew Visiting Professor at Smith College, the Gildersleeves Professor at Barnard College, the Purington Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College, and a visiting scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy. From 1993 through the fall of 2002, Ms. Desai was the John E. Burchard Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

40. IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection There are no general critical sites about anita desai presently in the collection; Use these links to search for anita desai outside the IPL. http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=des-319

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