# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anita-desai
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:07:58.296Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anita-desai"
name: "Anita Desai"
slug: "anita-desai"
description: "Anita Desai is an Indian novelist and the emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Literature. She won the Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea (1983). Her other works include Cry, the Peacock, Voices in the City (1963), Fire on the Mountain (1977) and an anthology of short stories, Games at Twilight (1978). She is on the advisory board of the Lalit Kala Akademi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, London. Since 2020 she has been a Companion of Literature."
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1937-06-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump