Anita Desai
Indian novelist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Anita Desai , born Anita Mazumdar , is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. She received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. She won the British Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea . Her other works include The Peacock, Voices in the City, Fire on the Mountain and an anthology of short stories, Games at Twilight. She is on the advisory board of the Lalit Kala Akademi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, London.
Anita Desai's Published Works
Published Works
- Turkish Embassy Letters (1993) (54)
- Clear Light of Day (1980) (49)
- Where Shall We Go This Summer (1975) (48)
- Fire on the Mountain (1977) (35)
- Cry, the Peacock (1980) (31)
- Living the Emergency (1989) (24)
- Baumgartner's Bombay (1988) (21)
- The Other Voice (1994) (14)
- Bye Bye Blackbird (2005) (13)
- The Village by the Sea (1982) (12)
- Voices in the City (1982) (12)
- Journey to Ithaca (1995) (11)
- The Fiction of Anita Desai (1989) (8)
- The Novels of Anita Desai: A Study in Character and Conflict (1988) (7)
- Diamond dust : and other stories (2001) (5)
- Anita Desai's Fiction: Patterns of Survival Strategies (1993) (4)
- Games at Twilight and Other Stories (1978) (3)
- Form and vision in the novels of Anita Desai (1996) (2)
- Introduction to Rabindranath Tagore's The Home and the World (2004) (2)
- Sorting the poor: A study of the management of the homeless in mid-sized Canadian city shelters (2008) (2)
- The original Indians : an enquiry (2001) (2)
- India! : the golden jubilee (1997) (2)
- Choosing to inhabit the real world (1989) (2)
- Diamond Dust: Stories (2000) (1)
- On Being an Indian Writer Today (2009) (1)
- FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES IN THE NOVELS OF ANITA DESAI (1)
- Voices in the liberation struggle the case of goa 1947 61 (2003) (1)
- A Comparative Study of the Psychoanalytical Portrayal of the Women Characters by (2009) (1)
- Harmony at the village level. (1988) (1)
- Voice and Vision of Anita Desai (1990) (1)
- A Shadow World (2005) (1)
- Ideological Ambiguities of “Writing Back” in the Heart of Darkness (2004) (1)
- " Going in the Opposite Direction " : Feminine Recusancy in Anita Desai s " Voices in the City " (2009) (1)
- FEMINISM AND MARRIAGE IN THE NOVELS OF (2016) (1)
- Essays on India (2007) (1)
- Marital Discord in (2013) (0)
- THE FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE OF KAMALA DAS, SHASHI DESHPANDE, ANITA DESAI, AND ARUNDHATI ROY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY (0)
- A QUEST FOR IDENTITY AND SELF INDEPENDENCE IN MANJU KAPUR’S A MARRIED WOMAN (2013) (0)
- Quest for Female Identity in the Novels Bye Bye Black Bird, Fire on the Mountain and Cry the Peacock of Anita Desai (2020) (0)
- Chapter-4 Search for Identity in the Novels of Arundhati Roy (2016) (0)
- 0 Word Symbolism-Meaning & Nature 5 . 1 Word Symbols in (2013) (0)
- Anita Desai as a Feminist Writer (0)
- Where Shall We Go This Summer? (1975) (2013) (0)
- Re-reading Tagore (1994) (0)
- Wives and husbands (1991) (0)
- THE NOVELIST OF THE INNER KINGDOM (2013) (0)
- Flight of Forms (2016) (0)
- Women in Exile and Alienation (0)
- Research Report on Developing the 'Hard to House' (H2H) Model (2012) (0)
- Footsteps on Water (2009) (0)
- In pursuit of India (1987) (0)
- Backstage in the Tropics (2004) (0)
- A PERSPECTIVE ON COMPLEXITIES OF DISLOCATION, ASSIMILATION AND TRANSFORMATION IN MULTICULTURAL SOCIETIES OF SELECTIVE DIASPORIC WOMEN’S WRITINGS (2012) (0)
- Mindful Moments: Improving Resident Wellness Through a Text-Message Based Curriculum (2018) (0)
- PRESENCE OF REALISM IN THE NOVELS OF ANITA DESAI (2018) (0)
- Research Plan For Ph. D. Programme 2012-13 Depiction of Womanhood in Selected Works of Some Prominent Woman Writers in Indian Writing in English DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES & MANAGEMENT FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY (2014) (0)
- SIMILARITIES AND DISSIMILARITIES OF FEMALE CHARACTERS IN THE MAJOR NOVELS OF R.P. JHABVALA (2021) (0)
- Prominent among Indian women novelists are Nayantara (2015) (0)
- : the Master of Characters and Conflicts (2019) (0)
- Correspondence - Students’ opinion on prevailing teaching methods in pharmacology andchanges recommended (2004) (0)
- FEMINIST PERCEPTION IN THE NOVELS OF ANITA DESAI, SHASHI DESHPANDE AND BHARATI MUKHERJEE: AN OVERVIEW Manu (2019) (0)
- IMAGES OF WOMEN IN THE NOVELS OF RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA (2013) (0)
- Journey to Ithaka (1996) (0)
- The village by the sea : an Indian family story (1985) (0)
- Conflict and Crisis of Virmati in Difficult Daughters (2020) (0)
- Noon in Calcutta : short stories from Bengal (1994) (0)
- Psychological Analysis of Female Characters from Selected Novels of (2017) (0)
- Individual and Society : A Study of Male Characters in the Novels of (2019) (0)
- Use of Symbolism in the Fiction of Anita Desai: A Psychoanalytic Study (2014) (0)
- FEMINISTIC READING OF ARUNDHATI ROY’S THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS IN AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE. (2018) (0)
- Mindful Moments: A Text Message Based Wellness Curriculum (2018) (0)
- The Travails of the Subaltern Woman : A Study of Manju Kapur ' s A Married Woman (2017) (0)
- Geetanjali Singh Chanda Mapping Motherhood The Fiction of (2007) (0)
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