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Anita Desai is made a Companion of Literature in 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.
Recorded on: November 30, 2020
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On 22 June, we mark the 75th anniversary of Windrush by joining forces with The London Library to br …
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