Anita Desai

Anita Mazumdar Desai was born on June 24, 1937, in India. She is a novelist and the John E. Burchard Emerita Professor of Humanities at MIT in the USA. Her books have been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize. In 1978, her novel "Fire on the Mountain" won the Sahitya Akademi Award from the Indian Academy.