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The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Anita and Kiran Desai help celebrate Wasifiri birthday
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Anita and Kiran Desai help celebrate Wasifiri birthday
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Told with palpable anger and scant sympathy for its characters, this is a powerful novel but I confess that I struggled to really appreciate it When Kiran Desai's Inheritance Of Loss won the 2006 Booker Prize, a few eyebrows were raised. Although she had a famous mother (Anita Desai) who had herself been on the Booker shortlist three times, Kiran was relatively unknown. Comparatively...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... Writing MA hint at the fact that writing fiction is not a given birthright, but a learned art. Anita Desai, (pic right EPA), the acclaimed Indian author and Professor Emeritus of creative writing at MIT, reignited the debate this week when, speaking alongside her daughter, Kiran Desai, she suggested creative writing courses ultimately distract writers from finding their own...
Another 52 Books (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... Gita, which is part of the Mahabharata. *Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Anita Desai.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Are writers born or do they emerge after a year of being 'workshopped' on a creative writing course? There is evidence either way Dickens didn't sit through an MA in the fens, yet the starry alumni graduating from Iowa's Writers' Worshop and the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing MA hint at the fact that writing fiction is not a given birthright, but a learned art.Anita Desai,...