Awards & Winners

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Date of Birth 1956
Place of Birth Kolkata
(India, West Bengal, Kolkata district)
Nationality India, United States of America
Also know as Chitra Divakaruni
Profession Writer, Novelist, Author
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian-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 1995, and two of her novels were adapted into films. Mistress of Spices was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Divakaruni's works are largely set in India and the United States, and often focus on the experiences of South Asian immigrants. She writes for children as well as adults and has published novels in multiple genres, including realistic fiction, historical fiction, magical realism, and fantasy.

Awards by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Check all the awards nominated and won by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award The Conch Bearer
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1998


Crawford Award
Honored for : Mistress of Spices

1996


American Book Awards
Honored for : Arranged Marriage