Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni was born in India and later moved to the United States to attend college. She earned a M. A. at Wright State University and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Divakaruni held many odd jobs until she was able to become an accomplished writer. She was mostrar más the president of MAITRI, a crisis hotline for female South Asian victims of domestic abuse, and is currently a professor at Foothill College in California. Her works have been recognized in more than 50 magazines and 30 anthologies. She also has been awarded two PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Awards, a Pushcart Prize, and the Allen Ginsberg Poerty Prize. Divakaruni's books include Arranged Marriage and The Mistress of Spices. Her Title One Amazing Thing made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) Chitra Divakaruni is the author of the bestselling novels "The Mistress of Spices" & "Sister of My Heart", the story collection "Arranged Marriage", which won several awards, including the American Book Award, & four collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in "The New Yorker", "The Atlantic Monthly", "Ms.", & other publications. Born in India, she lives in the San Francisco area. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Series
Obras de Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The World Tree 1 copia
Leben ist Bewegung 1 copia
Divakaruni, Chitra Archive 1 copia
DARK LIKE THE RIVER 1 copia
O Portador da Concha 1 copia
Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage (2002) — Contribuidor — 690 copias
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (1998) — Contribuidor — 298 copias
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Contribuidor — 186 copias
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Contribuidor — 172 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1956-07-29
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- India
USA - Lugar de nacimiento
- Kolkata, India
- Lugares de residencia
- Kolkata, India
Dayton, Ohio, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Sunnydale, California, USA
Berkeley, California, USA
Houston, Texas, USA - Educación
- University of Calcutta (BA|1976)
Wright State University (MA|English)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD|English|1985) - Ocupaciones
- Professor of Creative Writing
novelist
poet - Organizaciones
- Board of Directors "Pratham"
Advisory Board, "Daya"
University of Houston
Maitri - Premios y honores
- PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Prize for Fiction
Bay Area Book Reviewers Award (Fiction)
American Book Award
South Asian Literary Association Distinguished Author Award, 2007
Best Books of 2003, Publishers Weekly, The Conch Bearer - Agente
- Sandra Dijkstra
- Biografía breve
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. Her themes include women, immigration, the South Asian experience, history, myth, magic and celebrating diversity.
She writes both for adults and children. Her books have been translated into 20 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew, Russian and Japanese. Two novels, The Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart, have been made into films. Her short stories, Arranged Marriage, won an American Book Award. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Houston.
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Five star books (1)
All Things India (1)
Reading Globally (1)
AP Lit (1)
Magic Realism (1)
Indian Diaspora (1)
Asia (1)
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- ISBNs
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- Idiomas
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