Anita Desai

Career

1. 1937
   Born
2. 1977
   Won Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize
3. 1978
   Won Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
4. 1978
   Won Sahitya Akademi Award
5. 1989
   Won Padma Shri in literature and education
6. 2014
   Won Padma Bhushan in literature & education
7. Member of Royal Society of Literature
8. Member of American Academy of Arts and Letters
9. Notable work: Fire on the Mountain

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Mussoorie
• •Citizenship: British Raj, Dominion of India
• •Known as: writer, novelist, university teacher, short story writer