Purchase Books of a Litterateur NRI...The Thought Inspiring Anita DesaiMore and more books are being written in English language by Indians in India and overseas. With the recognition of English as an international language and its enchantment among Indian parents, English as medium of instruction is fast creeping into our education system sneaking its way into the rural hinterlands of India as well. Parents encourage the purchase of English books by their children.
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Of the many Indian authors of exemplary books penned by Indian authors Anita Desai has made a distinctive name for herself. Anita Desai, the noted Indian short story writer, children’s author and novelist needs no introduction for she is already a well known name in English literature. Her writing purchased worldwide deeply empathies with the Indian middle-class woman making her a popular writer in India. She has fine insight of the emotional needs of her female characters symbolizing universal sisterhood amongst the fair gender. A sensitive depiction of their inner turmoil and alienation in the stereotypical Indian society amidst family tensions makes her writings appear very real to the reader.
She began her literary career with her novel book Cry the Peacock (1963). Her other outstanding contributions to the English literature include the prestigious Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize winning work Fire on the Mountain (1977), her autobiographical Clear Light Day (1980), In Custody (1984) and Fasting, Feasting (1999) . Each one of these latter three novel-books was remarkable in its own right and short listed for the Booker Prize. The theme of In Custody (1984) depicting the life of an Indian Urdu poet in his declining days was lifted for making a film by the Ismail Merchant of the famed Ivory Merchant Productions. The film was honored with the President of India Gold medal for Best Picture. Whilst ‘the Village by the Sea’ authored for children won her the Guardian Children’s Fiction award, her most recent books involve Diamond Dust and other stories (2000), and The Zig Zig Way (2004) set in 20th century Mexico.
Anita Desai was born in 1937 in Mussorie, India and educated in Delhi till she was married to Ashwin Desai, a businessman. Together they raised four children. Anita Desai is the mother of 2006 ‘Inheritance of Loss’ Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai. Currently Anita Desai lives in the US where she is the Professor Emeritus of Writing at MIT, Cambridge. She is also a Fellow of the Royal society of Literature, the American academy of Arts and Letters in the Girton College at Cambridge.
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