Divakaruni caste
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is the award-winning author of 18 books. Her themes include the Indian experience, contemporary America, women, immigration, history, myth, and the joys and challenges of living in a multicultural world. Her work has been published in over 100 magazines and anthologies and translated into 29 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew, Hindi and Japanese. She has won numerous awards, including an American Book Award and the internation Premio Scanno Prize. Divakaruni also writes for children and young adults. Her latest novel is Oleander Girl (Simon and Schuster, 2013). Her upcoming novel is Before We Visit the Goddess (about 3 generations of women-- grandmother, mother and daughter-- who each examine the question "what does it mean to be a successful woman." April 2016, Simon & Schuster.) Two of her books, The Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart, have been made into movies. Her novels One Amazing Thing and Palace of Illusions have been optioned. Her collection of stories, Arranged Marriage has been made into a play. She was born in India and
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About the Author
FICTION
Oleander Girl, A Novel (to be released on March 19, 2013)
One Amazing Thing (2010)
The Palace of Illusions: A Novel (2008)
Queen of Dreams (2004)
The Vine of Desire* (2002)
Sister of My Heart (1999)
The Mistress of Spices (1997)
* sequel to Sister of My Heart
YOUNG READERS
Grandma and the Great Gourd: A Bengali Folk Tale. Illustrations by Susy Pilgrim Waters (to be released on March 5, 2013)
Shadowland. Brotherhood of the Conch, Book Three (2009)
The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming. Brotherhood of the Conch, Book Two (2005)
The Conch Bearer. Brotherhood of the Conch, Book One (2003)
Neela: Victory Song*. Illustrations by Troy Howell (2002)
* part of Girls of Many Lands series
STORY COLLECTIONS
The Unknown Errors of Our Lives (2001)
Arranged Marriage: Stories (1995)
POETRY*
Leaving Yuba City (1997)
Black Candle (1991)
The Reason for Nasturtiums (1990)
Dark Like the River (1987)
* Before she began her career in f Born 1956, in Calcutta, India; Education: Calcutta University, B.A., 1976; Wright State University, M.A., 1978; University of California—Berkeley, Ph.D., 1985. Office—Foothill College, English Department, 12345 El Monte Rd., Los Altos, CA 94022-4504. Diablo Valley College, professor of creative writing, 1987-89; Foothill College, Los Altos, CA, professor of creative writing, 1989—. Mid-Peninsula Support Network for Battered Women, 1990—; President, MAITRI (help-line for South Asian women), 1991—. Memorial Award, Barbara Deming Foundation, 1989; Writing Award, Santa Clara County Arts Council, 1990; Writing Award, Gerbode Foundation, 1993; Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for Fiction; PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Prize for Fiction; Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize and Pushcart Prize, both for Leaving Yuba City; American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 1996, for Arranged Marriage: Stories; California Arts Council Award, 1998; The Mistress of Spices was named a bes
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