Anita desai

Born :- 24 june 1937

Period :- 1963- present

Occupation :- writer, proffesors

Genre :- Fiction

Nationality :- Indian

Biography :-

      Anita mazumdar is an Indian Novelist and the proffesor of Humanities at the Massachusetts institute of technology.anita was born in mussoorie, India, and spent her childhood in Delhi.Her parents had met in Germany when her father was studying there, and they moved back to his home of India in the 1029s.her mother was German and father was Indian so she grew up speaking German, Bengali, Hindi and urdu. She only learned English when she went to a mission school.

         In 1958,Anita Desai married ashwin Desai. And they had four children. One of her daughter named kiran desai won the man booker prize in 2006.

Works of Anita Desai :-

Anita desai published her first short story at the age of 20.her first novel was "cry, the peacock"(1963).

She also wrote other many famous novels like:

1.voices in the city(1965)

2.Bye-Bye, Blackbird (1971)

3.Where shall we Go this summer? (1975)

4. Fire on the mountain(1971)

5.clear Light of day (1980)

6.In custody (1984)

      She has written books for children, numerous short stories that have been collected into anthologies, and essays.

Awards :-

      Desai has received many awardes, including,

1. The Royal society of literature winifred Holtby prize (1978)

2.The sahitya akademi of indian award (1979)

3.The Guardian award of children's fiction(1982)

4.the national academy of letters award.

5. Three nomination for Booker prize.

     Even she taught in Cambridge, Oxford, smith, Mount Holyoke, and MIT. She is also a member of the Royal society of literature and the American academy of Arts and Letters.

 Her family currently live in the United states.

 

Here i put some of her famous quotes :-

:- Whenever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

:- They never looked at anyone eles, only at each other, with an expression that halted me. It was tender, loving, yes, but in an inhuman way, so intense. Divine, i felt. Or insane.

:- The wheel turns and turns and turns : it never stops and stands still.

:- i aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

:- Greenness hangs,Drips and sways from every branch and twig and frond in the surging luxuriance of julu.

 

              Thus to conclude we can able to consider that Anita Desai is great novelist and most attractive and intelligent figure of 20th century amongst all ohers. She is known for her novel and she can able to write in Hindi, English, Germany, Bengali etc. She is A beautiful woman with extraordinary knowledge.