| 词条 | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
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}}{{EngvarB|date=August 2014}}{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}}{{Infobox writer |image = ChitraBanerjeeDivakaruni.JPG |imagesize = 220px| | name = Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = Chitralekha Banerjee | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|7|29|df=y}}[1] | birth_place = Kolkata, India | death_date = | death_place = | 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 =Indian-American | period = | genre = poetry, short stories, novels; fantasy, young adult, magical realism, historical fiction | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | website = {{URL|www.chitradivakaruni.com}} }} Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee, July 29, 1956[2]) 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 (The Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart) as well as a short story The Word Love were adapted into films. Mistress of Spices was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Currently, Sister of My Heart, Oleander Girl, Palace of Illusions, 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 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, myth and fantasy. BackgroundDivakaruni was born in Kolkata (Calcutta), India. She received her B.A. from the University of Calcutta in 1976.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} That same year, she went to the United States to attend Wright State University where she received a master's degree.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} She received a PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985 (Christopher Marlowe was the subject of her doctoral dissertation).{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} 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).[3] CareerDivakaruni 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 Wright State University, and a dining hall attendant at International House, Berkeley. She was a graduate teaching assistant at U.C. Berkeley. She taught at Foothill College in Los Altos, California and Diablo Valley College. She now lives and teaches in Texas, 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 South Asian women dealing with domestic abuse. 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.[4] WorksFiction and poetryDivakaruni's work has been published in over 50 magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker and her writing has been included in over 50 anthologies including the Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Prize Stories, and the Pushcart Prize 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 Gerbode Award, a Barbara Deming Memorial Award and an Allen Ginsberg Award. Divakaruni's first collection of stories Arranged Marriage, which won an American Book Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Award, and a Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, greatly increased her visibility. Her major novels include The Mistress of Spices, Sister of My Heart, Queen of Dreams, One Amazing Thing, Palace of Illusions, 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 The Brotherhood of the Conch 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[5] is a re-telling of the Indian epic The Mahabharata from Draupadi's perspective.[6] Her book The Palace of Illusions has also been included among a list of [https://www.indiatimes.com/lifestyle/self/12-books-by-indian-authors-you-need-to-read-now-230548.html 12 books of Indian authors] you must read now released by Indiatimes. Film, television, theater and operaDivakaruni's novel The Mistress of Spices was released as a film of the same name in 2005. It was directed by Paul Mayeda Berges, with a script by Berges and his wife, Gurinder Chadha. The film starred Aishwarya Rai and Dylan McDermott. 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).[7] 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. WorksFiction
Young adult and children's
Brotherhood of the Conch series
Poetry
Anthologies
Awards
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References1. ^http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3416300043/divakaruni-chitra-banerjee-1956.html {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee}}2. ^{{cite book |title= Asian American Short Story Writers: An A-to-Z Guide|last= Davis|first= Rocío G.|editor1-first= Guiyou|editor1-last= Huang|year= 2003|publisher= Greenwood Press|location= Westport, CT|isbn= 978-0-313-32229-7|page= 65 |url= https://books.google.com/?id=skdEeK1SEAQC&lpg=PA65&dq=Chitra%20Banerjee%20Divakaruni%201956&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=Chitra%20Banerjee%20Divakaruni%201956&f=false|chapter= Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956– )|chapterurl= https://books.google.com/books?id=skdEeK1SEAQC&lpg=PA65&ots=E6vUpjRkIV&dq=Chitra%20Banerjee%20Divakaruni%201956&pg=PA65#v=onepage&q=Chitra%20Banerjee%20Divakaruni%201956&f=false|accessdate= 2 June 2010}} 3. ^See author's Bio on her webpage 4. ^{{Cite journal|last=Agarwal|first=Dr. Gunjan and Gunjan Kapil|date=December 2014|title=The Representation of Woman in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Doors, Affair, and Meeting Mrinal|url=http://www.the-criterion.com/V5/n6/GunjanKapil.pdf|journal=The Criterion|volume=5| issue = 6|pages=77|via=}} 5. ^{{cite web |url=http://blogs.indiareads.com/views-and-reviews/palace-of-illusions-by-chitra-banerjee-divakaruni/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-02-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110215125833/http://blogs.indiareads.com/views-and-reviews/palace-of-illusions-by-chitra-banerjee-divakaruni/ |archivedate=15 February 2011 |df=dmy-all }} 6. ^{{cite news| url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050313/asp/calcutta/story_4482774.asp | location=Calcutta, India | work=The Telegraph | first=Madhumita | last=Bhattacharyya | title=Dreams and dislocation | date=13 March 2005}} 7. ^ 32 : 21st-century American novelists|Indian emigrants to the United States|American women short story writers|University of Calcutta alumni|Wright State University alumni|Bengali writers|1956 births|Living people|University of Houston faculty|University of California, Berkeley alumni|American people of Bengali descent|20th-century American novelists|American women novelists of Indian descent|American short story writers of Indian descent|20th-century American women|21st-century Indian women writers|20th-century Indian short story writers|21st-century Indian short story writers|20th-century American short story writers|21st-century American short story writers|20th-century Indian women writers|20th-century American women writers|21st-century American women|20th-century Indian novelists|21st-century Indian novelists|Writers from Kolkata|Women writers from West Bengal|Novelists from West Bengal|Poets from West Bengal|PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award winners|American Book Award winners|Novelists from Texas |
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