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Date of Birth
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24-June-1937
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Place of Birth
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Mussoorie
(India, Uttarakhand, Dehradun district)
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Nationality
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India
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Also know as
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Anita Mazumdar Desai, Anita Mazumdar, अनीता मजूमदार देसाई, अनीता मजूमदार
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Profession
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Writer, Novelist, Author, Professor, Screenwriter
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Anita Mazumdar Desai 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.
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