Anita Mazumdar Net Worth
Anita Mazumdar Net Worth is
$17 Million
Anita Mazumdar Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
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. | Date Of Birth | June 24, 1937 |
| Place Of Birth | Mussoorie, British India |
| Profession | Writer |
| Education | University of Delhi |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Star Sign | Cancer |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | She teaches one semester per year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [March 2007] |
| 2 | She earned her Bachelors of Arts Degree from Delhi University in 1957. |
| 3 | She has taught at Girton College and Smith College in England, and at Mount Holyoke College in the United States. |
| 4 | She is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. |
| 5 | Her father was Indian and her mother was German. |
| 6 | She received the Guardian Award for Children's Fiction for the novel, "The Village by the Sea" published in 1982. |
| 7 | She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London. |
| 8 | She was awarded the 1978 National Academy of Letters Award and the Winifred Holtby Memorial Price for "Fire on the Mountain". |
| 9 | She is the mother of author, Kiran Desai. |
| 10 | She was awarded the Neil Gunn Price in 1993 for her services to literature. |
| 11 | She was a finalist for the Booker Price in 1980 for "Clear Light of Day," 1984 for "In Custody," and 1999 for "Fasting, Feasting.". |
| 12 | She was awarded the Italian honor of Alberto Monrovia Literature Prize in 1999 for her services and contributions to literature. |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| In Custody | 1994 | novel / script | |
| The Village by the Sea | 1991 | TV Series book |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARDtalk Extra | 2005 | TV Series | Herself |
| In Ismail's Custody | 1994 | Video documentary | Writer of 'In Custody' |
Known for movies
In Custody (1994)
as Writer
The Village by the Sea (1991)
as Writer
In Ismail's Custody (1994)
as Writer of 'In Custody'
HARDtalk Extra (2005)
as Herself