Anita Desai, Indian Writer

• Anita Desai is an Indian novelist. Anita Desai was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, in 1978 for her novel, Fire on the Mountain
• Anita Desai’s work is a part of new style of writing, which came out of less conservative writings of India as Indian writings have been in the past. For sensitive portrayal of the inner life of her female characters, this Indian novelist and short story writer is eminent.

• Early Life of Anita Desai
  Anita Desai was born to a German mother and an Indian Father in India June 24, 1937. . She learned to read and write in English at school, which became her literary language. Anita Mazumdar married Ashvin Desai in the year 1957.
• Anita Desai as a Writer
  Anita Desai started to write short stories before her marriage. She made her debut with “Cry, The Peacock” in 1963 as a novelist.

• The next was the “Voices of the City” in 1965 a story of three siblings Amla, Nirode and Monisha and their ways of life in Kolkata. With “Where Shall We Go This Summer” in 1975,
• Anita Desai started to look the life of unprivileged. It reflected in the book “In Custody” in 1984. It is a story about in his declining days of an Urdu Poet.
• Awards and Recognition of Anita Desai
  Through out her career as a writer she won several awards. She won Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize in the year 1978, Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978, Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 1983, Neil Gunn Prize in 1993.

• Anita Desai has been a member of the Advisory Board for English of the national Academy of Letters in Delhi. She has also been a member of the American academy of Arts and Letters.
• Anita Desai is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London. Desai has commented on her work: “My novels are no reflection of Indian society, politics or character.

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