About Anita Desai:
Anita Mazumdar Desai 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 Academy Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Academy, India's National Academy of Letters; she won the British Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea.
I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
Anita DesaiPeople think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.
Anita DesaiI try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
Anita Desai