Anita Desai
Anita Desai
Anita Mazumdar Desaiis an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times; she received a Sahitya Academy Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Academy, India's National Academy of Letters; she won the British Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 June 1937
wheels turns stills
The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.
motivational disappointment book
Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.
focus half percent thinking time
When I am writing, I focus 100 percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.