Recorded on date : November 30, 2020
Anita Desai was elected as an RSL Fellow in 1978. Anita is a novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at MIT. She has been shortlisted for the The Booker Prize three times and won the Guardian Book Award for The Village By The Sea.
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