Feasting and fasting by anita desai biography
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The onslaught of globalisation in the 90s not only connected India to the world like never before but also had a tremendous impact on literature ensuring Indian authors a special place in world literature.
Many affluent Indian writers, drawing inspiration from this ever-open world, produced some of their most prominent works– Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things), Vikram Seth (A Suitable Boy), and, the already well-established, Anita Desai.
Born in 1937, in Mussorie to a German mother and Bengali father, the Sahitya Akademi Awardee entered the literary world at the age of 26 with her first novel, ‘Cry The Peacock.’ She has since been shortlisted for a booker prize thrice.
Feasting and fasting by anita desai biography
Growing up during the partition, she found inspiration from her life and surroundings for her writing. Amid the deep cultural attachment, reflection, and critique, her work also often shows a critical observation of social gender dynamics.
While, in a 1988 interview, Desai disidentified as a