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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

India (b.1956)

Born in India, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni lives near San Francisco with her husband and two children. She teaches creative writing at a local college, and is the coordinator for a helpline for South Asian women. She is the author of several award-winning volumes of poetry, as well as Arranged Marriage, her acclaimed collection of short stories, a bestseller in America and winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Prize for fiction, an American Book Award, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for fiction.

Genres: Children's Fiction

Series

Brotherhood of the Conch
   1. The Conch Bearer (2003)
   2. The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming (2005)
   3. Shadowland (2009)

Novels

   The Mistress of Spices (1997)
   Sister of My Heart (1999)
   The Vine of Desire (2002)
   Neela: Victory Song (2002)
   Queen of Dreams (2004)
   The Palace of Illusions (2008)
   One Amazing Thing (2010)
   Oleander Girl (2013)
   Before We Visit the Goddess (2016)
   The Forest of Enchantments (2019)
   The Last Queen (2021)

Omnibus

The Women's Library (2019) (with K R Meera and Anita Nair)

Collections

   Reason for Nasturiums (poems) (1990)
   Black Candle (poems) (1991)
   Arranged Marriage (1995)
   Leaving Yuba City (poems) (1997)
   The Unknown Errors of Our Lives (2001)
   Full-Blooded Fantasy (2005) (with Jodi Lynn Anderson, Hilari Bell, Holly Black, Will Davis, Tony DiTerlizzi, Nancy Farmer, D J MacHale, Kai Meyer and J T Petty)

Picture Books

Grandma and the Great Gourd (2013)

Anthologies edited

California Uncovered (2004) (with William E Justice and James Quay)

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni recommends

White Swan, Black Swan (2001)
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When the Elephants Dance (2002)
Tess Uriza Holthe
"Powerful, lyrical, superbly imagined."

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