The beautiful, melancholy world of Anita Desai

Writers and Company

English - April 07, 2024 04:10 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 182 ratings
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This week on Writers and Company, Anita Desai — one of India's most celebrated and successful writers. Over the course of her career, which spans five decades, Desai has written several novels and has been nominated for the Booker Prize three times. Eleanor Wachtel spoke to her on stage at Montreal's Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in 2017, where she received the Grand Prix for lifetime achievement. Desai's latest book, Rosarita, is forthcoming from Picador Press.

This interview originally aired May 7, 2017.