It's time for you to rack your literary grey cells and see how well you know the celebrated author and Sahitya Akademi Fellow Anita Desai.
Take our quiz and find out. Three winners with all correct answers will get the opportunity to personally meet and click a photograph with the incredible Anita Desai on December 3.
How to participate?
Please copy these questions and paste them onto an email. Add the answers and send them to us at anitadesai.contest@rediffmail.com.
Please send your full name, age and phone number so that we can get in touch with you immediately if you are one of the lucky winners.
The event is being held in Mumbai. You will have to reach the venue at your own cost.
This contest is now closed
Here are the questions:
1. For which film has Anita Desai written a script?
2. What did Anita Desai teach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?
3. Which, according to her, is her most autobiographical work?
4. Name at least two awards she has received in India.
5. Name a book Anita Desai wrote for children
6. Three of Anita Desai's books were nominated for the Booker Award. Name them.
7. For which book did Anita Desai win the Sahitya Akademi Award?
8. Which school did Anita Desai study in?
9. Which educational institution did she graduate from?
10. How many children does Anita Desai have?
Don't forget...
The contest closes at 1 pm on Monday, December 3.
The contest is only open to rediff.com readers based in India.
Prizes courtesy Random House India | Photograph: Paresh Gandhi
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