Anita Desai was born in 1937. Her published works include adult novels, children’s books and short stories. She is a member of the Advisory Board for English of the National Academy of Letters in Delhi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London. Anita Mazumdar Desai is an Indian novelist and Emeritus John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker prize three times. Her daughter, the author Kiran Desai, is the winner of the 2006 Booker prize.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
Cry, The Peacock (1963) Orient Paperbacks
Voices in the City (1965) Orient Paperbacks
Bye-bye Blackbird (1971) Orient Paperbacks
Where Shall We Go This Summer? (1975) Orient Paperbacks
Fire on the Mountain (1977) Random House India
Clear Light of Day (1980), Random House India,
In Custody (1984)
Baumgartner’s Bombay (1988) Harper Perennial
Journey to Ithaca (1995) Random House India
Fasting, Feasting (1999) Random House India
The Zigzag Way (2004) Random House India
Rosarita (2024) Picador
Collections of novellas and short stories
Games at Twilight (1978) Vintage Publishing
Scholar and Gipsy (1996) Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Diamond Dust and Other Stories (2000) Vintage Books
Collected Stories (2008) Random House India
The Artist of Disappearance (2011) Mariner Books
The Complete Stories (2017), Chatto and Windus Penguin Random House UK
Children’s books
The Peacock Garden (1974), Mammoth Books
Cat on a Houseboat (1976) Orient Longman
The Village by the Sea (1982) Penguin India
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