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Anita Desai


India (b.1937)
Mother of Kiran 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.
 


Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Cry, the Peacock (1963)
   Voices in the City (1965)
   Bye-Bye, Blackbird (1968)
   The Peacock Garden (1974)
   Where Shall We Go This Summer? (1975)
   Fire on the Mountain (1976)
   Clear Light of Day (1980)
   The Village By the Sea (1982)
   In Custody (1984)
   Baumgartner's Bombay (1988)
   Journey to Ithaca (1995)
   Fasting, Feasting (1999)
   The Zigzag Way (2004)
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Collections
   Games At Twilight (1978)
   Scholar and Gypsy (1996)
   Diamond Dust (2000)
   The Artist of Disappearance (2011)
   The Complete Stories (2017)
   Collected Stories (2021)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Rosarita (2024)
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Books containing stories by Anita Desai
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Life (2013)
Great Short Stories for Women by Women
edited by
Victoria Hislop

Award nominations
2012 PEN/Faulkner Award (nominee) : The Artist of Disappearance
1999 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Fasting, Feasting
1984 Booker Prize (shortlist) : In Custody
1980 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Clear Light of Day


Anita Desai recommends
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In the City by the Sea (1998)
Kamila Shamsie
"Lively, playful, provocative."

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