Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian-born American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her short story collection, Arranged Marriage, won an American Book Award in 1996.
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This novel was born out of a combination of visits I paid to Kolkata and my own musings on family secrets (yes, my family has some!).
On her novel Oleander Girl in “AN INTERVIEW WITH CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI” in Bookslut (August 2013)
I did not think I had a story to tell…Moving to a very different culture and learning to live on my own made me see the world much more clearly….
On how her immigration experience shaped her writing in “Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Sisters and Spices” in Guernica (2015 Aug 3)
I spent childhood vacations with my grandfather in a little village three hours outside of Kolkata.
On her earliest memories of storytelling in “Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Sisters and Spices” in Guernica (2015 Aug 3)
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian-born American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her short story collection, Arranged Marriage, won an American Book Award in 1996. Two of her novels, as well as a short story were adapted into films.
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