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
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.
wheels turns stills
The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.