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My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly. - Anita Desai
" "My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
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About Anita Desai
Anita Desai, born Anita Mazumdar (born 24 June 1937), is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of her daughters, Kiran Desai, is also a writer.
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(Would you get very angry if someone said you were the Virginia Woolf of India and you "mothered" the psychological novel in India?) Desai: No, I would be denying something which is fairly obvious. One is the influence of Virginia Woolf upon my own work, and the other is that there weren't very many women writers in India at that time writing psychological novels.
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