Who has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize more times, Anita Desai or John Richardson?
Anita Desai: Anita Desai (born 24 June 1937) is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anita Desai:  As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times; she received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel "Fire on the Mountain", from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters; she won the British Guardian Prize for "The Village by the Sea".
i don't know