children birth_place nationality name birth_date period genre article_title birth_name occupation alma_mater
kiran desai mussorie , india indian anita desai 24 june 1937 1963 -- present fiction anita desai
 anita mazumdar writer , professor university of delhi
anita desai

anita mazumdar desai -lrb- born 24 june 1937 -rrb- 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 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 '' .
