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This article contains content that is written like. Please help by removing and inappropriate, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a. (May 2016) () () Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Born Chitralekha Banerjee July 29, 1956, India Occupation Novelist, professor, poet, essayist, short story writer, author, fiction writer, nonfiction writer, children's fiction writer, young adult fiction writer, book reviewer, columnist Nationality Genre poetry, short stories, novels; fantasy, young adult, magical realism, historical fiction Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee, July 29, 1956 ) is an author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the Creative Writing Program. Her short story collection, Arranged Marriage won an in 1995, and two of her novels ( and ) as well as a short story The Word Love were adapted into films.

Was short-listed for the. Currently, Sister of My Heart, Oleander Girl,, and One Amazing Thing have all been optioned to be made into movies or TV serials. Divakaruni's works are largely set in India and the United States, and often focus on the experiences of immigrants. She writes for children as well as adults and has published novels in multiple, including, historical fiction,, myth and. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Background [ ] Divakaruni was born in (Calcutta), India. She received her B.A.

From the in 1976. Wattpad Tagalog Soft Copies Pdf Download. [ ] 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). [ ] 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. She was a graduate teaching assistant at U.C.

She taught at in, California and. 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 also serves on the emeritus board of Pratham Houston, a non-profit organisation working to bring literacy to disadvantaged Indian children [ ]. 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. 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.

It was performed by Festival Opera in the San Francisco Bay area in 2015. Her novel One Amazing Thing has currently been optioned by the Hollywood production company Gillen Group. Personal life [ ] 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). • • • • Further reading [ ] • Abcarian, Richard and Marvin Klotz. 'Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.'

In Literature: The Human Experience, 9th edition. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006: 1544. • Aldana, Frederick Luis.

'Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: The Unknown Errors of Our Lives.' World Literature Today. University of Oklahoma. 1 January 2002.

• Cheung, edited by King-Kok (2000).. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press in association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Los Angeles..

CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list () • Softsky, Elizabeth. 'Cross Cultural Understanding Spiced with the Indian Diaspora.' Black Issues in Higher Education 14 (15):26. 18 September 1997. Kennedy et al.

The Bedford Reader, 10th edition. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007: 446. • Majithia, Sheetal. 'Of Foreigners and Fetishes: A Reading of Recent South Asian American Fiction. Free Download Program Contoh Soal Tpa Bappenas S2 Pdf Download here. ' Samar 14: The South Asian American Generation (Fall/Winter 2001): 52–53. • Newton, Pauline T.

Transcultural Women of Later Twentieth Century US American Literature. Ashgate Publishing, 2005. • Merlin, Lara.

'The Mistress of Spices.' World Literature Today. University of Oklahoma. 1 January 1998. • Johnson, Sarah Anne.

'Writing outside the Lines.' Writer 117(3):20 Mar 2004. External links [ ] • • on References [ ].