Talk:Anita Desai

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: Anita Desai was born on 24 June 1937 in Mussoorie to a German mother(Toni Nime) and Bengali father(D.N.Mazumdar). She spent much of her time in Delhi. She learnt to speak and write German, Bangla, English, Urdu and Hindi. Desai is among the well known Indian writers in English and is at present in the United States, where she is the John E. Burchard Professor of Writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
: Her other novels include Fire on the Mountain (1977), which won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and Clear Light of Day (1980), In Custody (1984) and Fasting, Feasting (1999), each of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In Custody was made into a film by Merchant Ivory productions. Her children's book The Village by the Sea (1982), won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award in the year 1983.
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message: I believe that the lead is concise because it talks about her career and what she is known for within the first sentence. Then, they briefly go over her accolades which provides insight into her successes and is most helpful for a concise lead. ~~~~ Vk2023 (talk) 20:20, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the lead concise or overly detailed?