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Anita Desai

1937 - Today

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Anita Desai (born Anita Mazumdar, 24 June 1937) is an Indian novelist and 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anita Desai has received more than 1,311,656 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Anita Desai is the 5,553rd most popular writer (down from 5,123rd in 2019), the 710th most popular biography from India (down from 599th in 2019) and the 105th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 53.12

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  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anita Desai ranks 5,553 out of 7,302. Before her are Ferdinand von Schirach, Grace Paley, Joe Sacco, Melih Cevdet Anday, Larry McMurtry, and Michiel de Swaen. After her are Kerstin Gier, Atis Kronvalds, Roger Ascham, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Konstantin Vasilyevich Ivanov, and Johan Theorin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Anita Desai ranks 427. Before her are Claude Allègre, Wilbur Ross, J. Bernlef, Umyar Mavlikhanov, Lothar Späth, and Allen Jones. After her are Irina Kirichenko, Fred Akuffo, Gennadi Gusarov, Emiliano Rodríguez, Klara Guseva, and Conny Vandenbos.

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In India

Among people born in India, Anita Desai ranks 710 out of 1,861. Before her are Paddy Ashdown (1941), Govinda (1963), Madhavrao I (1745), Dwarkanath Tagore (1794), Naveen Patnaik (1946), and Jasraj (1930). After her are Veerappan (1952), Ramdev (1965), Ravindra Prabhat (1969), Danny Denzongpa (1948), M. K. Stalin (1953), and Sunil Chhetri (1984).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Anita Desai ranks 105. Before her are Cornelia Sorabji (1866), Ismat Chughtai (1915), Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775), Nalini Bala Devi (1898), Roshanara Begum (1617), and Shrilal Shukla (1925). After her are Ravindra Prabhat (1969), Javed Akhtar (1945), Nambi Narayanan (1941), Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872), Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907), and Ruskin Bond (1934).

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