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Anita Desai

India (b.1937)
Mother of Kiran Desai

Born and educated in India, Anita Desai is the author of many novels and short stories, and has three times been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and though she lives in New York State, each year she spends time in India and Cambridge UK. In Custody was filmed by Merchant Ivory.

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   Cry, the Peacock (1963)
   Voices in the City (1965)
   Bye-Bye, Blackbird (1968)
   The Peacock Garden (1974)
   Where Shall We Go This Summer? (1975)
   Fire on the Mountain (1976)
   Clear Light of Day (1980)
   The Village By the Sea (1982)
   In Custody (1984)
   Baumgartner's Bombay (1988)
   Journey to Ithaca (1995)
   Fasting, Feasting (1999)
   The Zigzag Way (2004)

Collections

   Games At Twilight (1978)
   Scholar and Gypsy (1996)
   Diamond Dust (2000)
   The Artist of Disappearance (2011)
   The Complete Stories (2017)
   Collected Stories (2021)

Non fiction

Peasant Struggles in India (1979)

Awards

	Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1980) : Clear Light of Day
	Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1984) : In Custody
	Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1999) : Fasting, Feasting
	Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2005) : The Zigzag Way
	PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book nominee (2012) : The Artist of Disappearance