Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Keynote Speaker: Award-Winning Author and Poet

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Biography

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is the author of three acclaimed novels, The Mistress of Spices, Sister of My Heart, and The Vine of Desire; two short story collections, Arranged Marriage and The Unknown Errors of Our Lives; four volumes of poetry; and a novel for young readers, Neela: Victory Song. Her next book, Oleander Girl will be released in the spring of 2013. Her work has appeared in over 50 magazines including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New York Times and in over 50 anthologies. Her books have been translated into 29 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew and Japanese.

Divakaruni teaches in the nationally ranked Creative Writing program at the University of Houston. She serves on the Advisory board of Maitri in the San Francisco Bay Area and Daya in Houston. Both are organizations that help South Asian or South Asian American women who find themselves in abusive or domestic violence situations. She served on the board of Pratham, an organization that helps educate underprivileged children in India, for many years and is currently on their emeritus board.

Divakaruni has spoken at numerous conferences, colleges, and companies over the years. For companies such as Pitney Bowes, Genentech, and Lawrence Livermore Labs, she has done diversity and staff development events. She has spoken at a number of national Indian or Asian organizations such as the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), and Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) in addition to the annual conferences of the National Council of Teachers of English, American Librarians Association, Texas Librarians Association, Literacy Councils in many cities, Book Expo America, and many literary festivals and author luncheons, such as at the San Francisco and Sacramento Kidney Foundation annual fundraisers, Women and Words fundraiser, Peninsula Volunteers Annual Luncheon, Literary Sojourn, Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. More than 50 colleges have welcomed her on campus to discuss topics ranging from English and Creative Writing to Women’s studies, Asia Studies, India Studies, or Asian American Studies.

Divakaruni has judged several prestigious awards, such as the National Book Award and the PEN Faulkner Award.

Two of her books, The Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart, have been made into movies by filmmakers Gurinder Chadha and Paul Berges (an English film) and Suhasini Mani Ratnam (a Tamil TV serial) respectively. Mistress of Spices was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.

Born in Kolkata, India, she came to the United States for her graduate studies, receiving a Master’s degree in English from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

To earn money for her education, she held many odd jobs, including babysitting, selling merchandise in an Indian boutique, slicing bread in a bakery, and washing instruments in a science lab. At Berkeley, she lived in the International House and worked in the dining hall. She briefly lived in Illinois and Ohio, but has spent most of her life in Northern California, which she often writes about.

Divakaruni lives in Houston with her husband Murthy, her two sons Anand and Abhay (whose names she has used in her children’s novels) and Juno, the family dog.

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics. The estimated speaking fee range to book Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni for live events is $10,000 - $20,000. Please contact us for virtual event fees. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Vivienne Ming, Jeni Kubota and Hansy Better Barraza. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni for an upcoming event.

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