Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 17 (1983) Winner
Anita Desai
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Anita Desai
Aliases:
Anita Mazumdar
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1937-01-01 （Mussoorie）
- Nationality
- Indian
- Languages
- Hindi, German, Bengali, Urdu, English
- Residence History
- New Delhi, India
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Professor
- Active Years
- 1963-2024
- Affiliations
- Lalit Kala Akademi advisory board, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Companion of Literature
- Nominations
- Booker Prize shortlist for Clear Light of Day (1980), Booker Prize shortlist for In Custody (1984), Booker Prize shortlist for Fasting, Feasting (1999)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Delhi, Miranda House | — | English Literature | B.A. | — | India |
University of Delhi, Miranda House
English Literature
Degree:
B.A.
Year of Graduation:
1957
Country:
India
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize | Fire on the Mountain | — | Royal Society of Literature | 受賞 |
| 1978 | Sahitya Akademi Award | Fire on the Mountain | — | Sahitya Akademi | 受賞 |
| 1983 | Guardian Children's Fiction Prize | The Village by the Sea | — | The Guardian | 受賞 |
| 1993 | Neil Gunn Prize | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2000 | Alberto Moravia Prize | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2003 | Benson Medal | — | — | Royal Society of Literature | 受賞 |
| 2007 | Sahitya Akademi Fellowship | — | — | Sahitya Akademi | 受賞 |
| 2014 | Padma Bhushan | — | — | Government of India | 受賞 |
Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize
1978
Work:
Fire on the Mountain
Organization:
Royal Society of Literature
Result:
受賞
Sahitya Akademi Award
1978
Work:
Fire on the Mountain
Organization:
Sahitya Akademi
Result:
受賞
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
1983
Work:
The Village by the Sea
Organization:
The Guardian
Result:
受賞
Neil Gunn Prize
1993
Result:
受賞
Alberto Moravia Prize
2000
Result:
受賞
Benson Medal
2003
Organization:
Royal Society of Literature
Result:
受賞
Sahitya Akademi Fellowship
2007
Organization:
Sahitya Akademi
Result:
受賞
Padma Bhushan
2014
Organization:
Government of India
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Cry, the Peacock
1963 FictionA psychological novel about a woman haunted by fears and paranoia in her marriage.
Psychological terrorMarriageIsolation
Voices in the City
1963 FictionDepicts the lives of three siblings in Calcutta.
Urban lifeFamily relationships
Fire on the Mountain
1977 FictionStory of a lonely elderly woman in the hills of Himachal Pradesh.
LonelinessIntergenerational conflict
Clear Light of Day
1980 FictionSemi-autobiographical novel about family dynamics in Delhi.
FamilyIndian independenceTime
In Custody
1984 FictionA young man interviews a fading Urdu poet.
PoetryDeclineCulture
Adaptations
- [Film] In Custody / Ismail Merchant (1993)
Baumgartner's Bombay
1988 FictionLife of a German Jewish man stranded in India.
ImmigrationIdentity
Fasting, Feasting
1999 FictionContrasts family life in India and America.
FoodFamilyCultural differences
Bibliography
- Cry, the Peacock
- Voices in the City
- Bye-bye Blackbird
- Where Shall We Go This Summer?
- Fire on the Mountain
- Clear Light of Day
- In Custody
- Baumgartner's Bombay
- Journey to Ithaca
- Fasting, Feasting
- The Zigzag Way
- Rosarita
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Meticulous psychological insightExploration of inner lives of Indian middle classLyrical prose
- Recurring Motifs
- Family tensionsLoneliness and isolationDecline of culture and tradition
Legacy
Pioneering figure in Indian English literature, thrice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, acclaimed for her psychological novels. Her daughter Kiran Desai is also a noted author.
Trivia
- Published her first story at age nine.
- Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at MIT.
- Co-founded Writers Workshop publishing firm in 1958.