Anita Desai

Anita Desai is an Indian novelist, born Anita Mazumdar in 1937, and she wrote novels including Clear Light of Day, Fire on the Mountain and Voices in the City. She is the emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her novel Fire on the Mountain received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978, and she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times.