{"id":29840,"date":"2024-08-29T06:18:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T06:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entri.app\/question-answer\/who-is-the-indian-author-of-arranged-marriage-a-short-story-collection-that-won-the-american-book-award-in-1995\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T06:18:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T06:18:30","slug":"who-is-the-indian-author-of-arranged-marriage-a-short-story-collection-that-won-the-american-book-award-in-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entri.app\/question-answer\/who-is-the-indian-author-of-arranged-marriage-a-short-story-collection-that-won-the-american-book-award-in-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is the Indian author of &#8216;Arranged Marriage&#8217; , a short story collection that won the American Book Award in 1995?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee, July 29, 1956) is an Indian-American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.<\/p>\n<p>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. 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