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Anita Desai

1937 - Today

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Anita Desai , born Anita Mazumdar (born 24 June 1937), 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anita Desai has received more than 1,207,975 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Anita Desai is the 5,141st most popular writer (down from 4,653rd in 2019), the 603rd most popular biography from India (down from 534th in 2019) and the 91st most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 34

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  • 1.77

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  • 5.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anita Desai ranks 5,141 out of 5,755. Before her are Kim Iryeop, Elmer Rice, Duran Çetin, Zoé Valdés, Alan Woods, and Amitav Ghosh. After her are Fatos Kongoli, Joël Dicker, Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Arvid August Afzelius, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Gay Talese.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Anita Desai ranks 382. Before her are Héctor Facundo, Klara Guseva, Manoj Kumar, Roger Penske, Svante Thuresson, and Joseph Saidu Momoh. After her are Conny Vandenbos, Ina Balin, Magic Slim, Jay Silvester, Detto Mariano, and Carlos Campos.

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In India

Among people born in India, Anita Desai ranks 603 out of 1,493. Before her are Persis Khambatta (1948), Margaret Abbott (1878), Narendra Dabholkar (1945), Manilal Gandhi (1892), Abhishek Bachchan (1976), and Amitav Ghosh (1956). After her are Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947), Randhir Kapoor (1947), Ismat Chughtai (1915), Vijay Amritraj (1953), Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948), and C. R. Rao (1920).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Anita Desai ranks 91. Before her are Shrilal Shukla (1925), Raghunath Murmu (1905), Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775), Ravindra Kelekar (1925), Cornelia Sorabji (1866), and Amitav Ghosh (1956). After her are Ismat Chughtai (1915), Gurdial Singh (1933), Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872), Pratibha Ray (1944), Javed Akhtar (1945), and Kaifi Azmi (1919).

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