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INTRODUCTION
D.O.B: 29 JULY 1996 KOLKATA INDIA

Chitralekha bannerji is an Indian american poet and she is MC DAVID professor of writing at the university of Houston creative writing programmed

she writes for children as well as adults and has published novels in multiple genres including realistic fiction, myth and fantasy. she was graduate teaching assistant at U.C. BERKELEY. divakarunis work is often considered as quasi autobiographical as most of her stories are set in California near where she lives. Divakaruni is also an editor of two anthologies. she focuses intently in her poetry on the experiences of women pursuing identities for themselves. the themes divakaruni explores in her short stories and poems are developed in novels.she draws on her own experiences and those of other immigrant women to write novels and verse.

Divakaruni’s many honors and awards include a C.Y. Lee Creative Writing Award, PEN Syndicated Fiction Awards, multiple Pushcart Prizes, the South Asian Literary Association’s Distinguished Author Award, International House Alumna of the Year from the University of California-Berkeley, the Cultural Jewel Award from the Indian Culture Center in Houston, and the Light of India Award from the Times of India.

Divakaruni's works are largely set in India and the United States, and often focus on the experiences of south Asian immigrants. Divakaruni is also a co-founder and former president of Maitri, a helpline founded in 1991 for south Asian women dealing with domestic abuse. Her fiction has been translated into 29 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew, Indonesian, Bengali,etc...