Name: Anita Desai.
Other Names: Anita Mazumdar.
Date of Birth: 24 June 1937.
Nationality: Indian.
Occupation: Writer, Professor.
Awards: Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for Fire on the Mountain(1978), Sahitya Akademi Award (National Academy of Letters Award) for Fire on the Mountain(1978), Benson Medal of Royal Society of Literature(2003).
Books:
- Cry, The Peacock (1963).
- Voices in the City (1965).
- Bye-bye Blackbird (1971).
- The Peacock Garden (1974).
- Where Shall We Go This Summer? (1975).
- Cat on a Houseboat (1976).
- Fire on the Mountain (1977).
- Games at Twilight (1978).
- Clear Light of Day (1980).
- The Village by the Sea (1982).
- In Custody (1984).
- Baumgartner’s Bombay (1988).
- Journey to Ithaca (1995).
- Scholar and Gipsey (1996).
- Fasting, Feasting (1999).
- Diamond Dust and Other Stories (2000).
- The Zigzag Way (2004).
- The Artist of Disappearance (2011).
