"Anita Mazumdar Desai (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 Academy Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Academy, India's National Academy of Letters; she won the British Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea."@en . "1963Z"^^ . . "Indian fiction writer" . "Desai, Anita"@en . "1937Z"^^ . "1937-06-24Z"^^ . "Anita Mazumdar"@en . . "Anita Desai"@en . .