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Contents.Background Divakaruni was born in (Calcutta), India. She received her B.A.
From the in 1976. That same year, she went to the United States to attend where she received a master's degree. She received a PhD in English from the in 1985 ( was the subject of her doctoral dissertation).Divakaruni lives in Houston with her husband Murthy.
She has two sons, Anand and Abhay (whose names she has used in her children's novels). Career Divakaruni put herself through graduate school by taking on odd jobs, working as a babysitter, a store clerk, a bread slicer in a bakery, a laboratory assistant at, and a dining hall attendant at. She was a graduate teaching assistant at U.C. She taught at in, California. She now lives and teaches in, where she is the McDavid professor of Creative Writing at the nationally ranked University of Houston Creative Writing Program.Divakaruni is a co-founder and former president of Maitri, a helpline founded in 1991 for women dealing with. Divakaruni serves on its advisory board and on the advisory board of a similar organisation in Houston, Daya.
She has served on the board of Pratham Houston, a non-profit organisation working to bring literacy to disadvantaged Indian children, for many years and is presently on their emeritus board. Works Fiction and poetry Divakaruni's work has been published in over 50 magazines, including and and her writing has been included in over 50 anthologies including the, the, and the anthology. Her fiction has been translated into 29 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew, Indonesian, Bengali, Turkish and Japanese.Divakaruni began her writing career as a poet. Her two latest volumes of poetry are Black Candle and Leaving Yuba City. She won several awards for her poems, such as a, a and an.Divakaruni's first collection of stories Arranged Marriage, which won an, a PEN Josephine Miles Award, and a Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, greatly increased her visibility. Her major novels include The, Queen of Dreams, One Amazing Thing, Oleander Girl and Before We Visit the Goddess.
Although the greater part of her novels are written for adults, she has also written a young adult fantasy series called which, unlike many of her adult novels, takes place wholly in India and draws on the culture and folklore of that region. The first book of the series, The Conch Bearer was nominated for the 2003 Bluebonnet Award. It was listed in the Publisher's Weekly Best Books of the Year, Booklist Editor's Choice, Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award Master List and the Rebecca Caudill Award Master List. The second book of the series, The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming came out in 2005 and the third and final book of the series, Shadowland, was published in 2009.Divakaruni's novel The Palace of Illusions, was a national best-seller for over a year in India and is a re-telling of the The from 's perspective. Her book The Palace of Illusions has also been included among a list of you must read now released by Indiatimes.Film, television, theater and opera Divakaruni's novel The was released as a film in 2005. It was directed by, with a script by Berges and his wife,.
The film starred and.In addition, her novel Sister of my Heart was made into a television series in Tamil and aired in India, as Anbulla Snegithiye (Loving Friend).Her story Clothes from the collection Arranged Marriage was adapted into a play and performed by the Sacramento Theater Company in 2010 and won an award. It is being performed in May 2006 by Ryerson University in Toronto.In 2013 Divakaruni wrote a chamber opera for the Houston Grand Opera titled River of Light about the life of an Indian woman in Houston.
It was performed by Houston Grand Opera (HGOCo) in 2014 and received excellent reviews.Further reading. Abcarian, Richard and Marvin Klotz. 'Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.' In Literature: The Human Experience, 9th edition. New York: Bedford/St.
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'Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: The Unknown Errors of Our Lives.' World Literature Today. University of Oklahoma.
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