Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (b. 1957) is an author and professor of English at the University of Houston.

She was born in Kolkata, India. She emigrated to the United States where she attended Wright State University and received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her collection of short stories, Arranged Marriages, won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Prize for Fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for Fiction, and an American Book Award.

Her novel, The Mistress of Spices, was released as a film in 2005. It is directed by Paul Mayeda

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)

Works

• Queen of Dreams (2004)
• The Vine of Desire (2002)
• The Unknown Errors of our Lives (2001)
• Sister of My Heart (1999)
• Leaving Yuba City (1997)
• The Mistress of Spices (1997)
• Arranged Marriage (1995)
• Black Candle (1991)
• The Reason for Nasturiums (1990)
• Dark Like the River (1987)

See also

• List of Indian Americans