Question: Who has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize more times, Anita Desai or John Richardson?

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Clear Light of Day: Clear Light of Day is a novel published in 1980 by Indian novelist and three-time Booker Prize finalist Anita Desai.  Set primarily in Old Delhi, the story describes the tensions in a post-partition Indian family, starting with the characters as adults and moving back into their lives throughout the course of the novel.  While the primary theme is the importance of family, other predominant themes include the importance of forgiveness, the power of childhood, and the status of women, particularly their role as mothers and caretakers, in modern-day India.

John Richardson (art historian): Sir John Patrick Richardson, KBE, FBA (born 6 February 1924) is a British art historian and Picasso biographer.  Richardson has also worked as an industrial designer and as a reviewer for "The New Observer".  In 1952, he moved to Provence, where he became friends with Picasso, Léger and de Staël.  In 1960, he moved to New York and organized a nine-gallery Picasso retrospective.  Christie's then appointed him to open their US office, which he ran for the next nine years.  In 1973 he joined New York gallery M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., as vice president in charge of 19th- and 20th-century painting, and later became managing director of Artemis, a mutual fund specializing in works of art.

Fasting, Feasting: Fasting, Feasting is a novel by Indian writer Anita Desai, first published in 1999 in Great Britain by Chatto and Windus.  It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for fiction in 1999.

The Village by the Sea: The Village by the Sea: an Indian family story is a novel for young people by the Indian writer Anita Desai, published in London by Heinemann in 1982.  It is based on the poverty, hardships and sorrow faced by a small rural, community in India.  Desai won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.

In Custody (1993 film): In Custody/Muhafiz (1993) is a film by Merchant Ivory Productions.  It was directed by Ismail Merchant, with a screenplay by Anita Desai and Shahrukh Husain.  It is based upon Desai's 1984 Booker Prize nominated novel "In Custody".

International Prize for Arabic Fiction: The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) (Arabic: الجائزة العالمية للرواية العربية‎ ‎ ) is a literary prize managed in association with the Booker Prize Foundation in London, and supported by the Emirates Foundation in Abu Dhabi.  The prize is specifically for prose fiction by Arabic authors, along the lines of the Man Booker Prize.  Each year, the winner of the prize receives US$50,000 and the six shortlisted authors receive US$10,000 each.

In Custody (novel): In Custody (1984) is a novel set in India by Indian American writer Anita Desai.  It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984.

Anita Desai: Anita Desai (born 24 June 1937) is 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 Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel "Fire on the Mountain", from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters; she won the British Guardian Prize for "The Village by the Sea".

Russian Booker Prize: The Russian Booker Prize (Russian: Русский Букер , "Russian Booker") is a Russian literary award modelled after the Man Booker Prize.  It was inaugurated by English Chief Executive Sir Michael Harris Caine in 1992.  The country's premier literary prize, it is awarded to the best work of fiction written in the Russian language each year as decided by a panel of judges, irrespective of the writer's citizenship.  s of 2012 , the chair of the Russian Booker Prize Committee is British journalist George Walden.  The prize is the first Russian non-governmental literary award since the country's 1917 Revolution.

The Best of the Booker: The Best of the Booker is a special prize awarded in commemoration of the Booker Prize's 40th anniversary.  Eligible books included the 41 winners of the Booker Prize since its inception in 1969.  The six shortlisted titles were announced on 12 May 2008 and were chosen by novelist Victoria Glendinning, broadcaster Mariella Frostrup and Professor of English at University College London John Mullan.  Among the nominees were the only two authors to have won the Booker twice, Peter Carey and J. M. Coetzee, nominated for their novels "Oscar & Lucinda" and "Disgrace" respectively.

Supporting paragraphs: John Richardson (art historian) Anita Desai
Answer: Anita Desai