Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (b. 1957) lived in Calcutta until the age of nineteen before moving to USA. She earned her Master’s and Ph. D. from universities in Ohio and California.

Chitra Divakaruni’s books are usually about the Indian immigrant experience in the US. Her stories (mainly told from a woman’s perspective) about coming to terms with a life displaced from a traditional homeland strike a chord with the Indian-American community.

She has spent most of her life in Northern California, often the setting of her works. Chitra Divakaruni has won the Pushcart Prize and the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize.

Works

• Queen of Dreams {2004}
• The Conch Bearer {2003}
• Neela: Victory Song {2002}
• Vine of Desire {2002}
• The Unknown Errors of Our Lives {2001}
• Sister of My Heart {1999}
• The Mistress of Spices {1997}
• Arranged Marriage {1995}
• Leaving Yuba City {1997}
• Black Candle {1991}
• The Reason for Nasturtiums {1990}
• The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming {2005}
• The Palace of Illusions {2008}