Date: 7 March 2011
CHITRA DIVAKARUNI & GISH JEN
7:30 pm (doors open 6:45 pm)
Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
800 Bagby Directions and parking
Reading followed by an onstage interview, book sale and signing, where audience members can meet the author. Click here to submit questions for Divakaruni and Jen.
CHITRA DIVAKARUNI, born in India, is the award-winning author of 16 books, including novels, short stories, poetry collections, and children’s books. She has been published in more than 50 magazines, included in more than 50 anthologies, and translated into 18 languages. Her novel, Sister of My Heart, was a national bestseller and her story collection Arranged Marriage received an American Book Award. Two of her novels, The Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart, were made into films. About her latest novel, One Amazing Thing, which focuses on a diverse cast of characters trapped together during a crisis, The Huffington Post writes, "Divakaruni is a beautiful writer, using words as lithely and effortlessly as breathing, and while she breathes, she sings.” Divakaruni is a faculty member at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. To buy books by Chitra Divakaruni, click here.
GISH JEN’s work is known for its “trademark compassion, laser-like attention to detail, and quirky wit,” (Publishers Weekly). She is the author of three novels and a book of short stories, including a New York Times Notable Book, Typical American, shortlisted for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, and Mona in the Promised Land. About her story collection, Who’s Irish?, The New York Times Book Review says, "Jen's gift is for comedy that resonates, and sadnesses that arise with perfect timing from absurdities. Her subject matter is so appealing, it almost obscures the power and suppleness of her language.” Her fourth novel, World and Town (which will be released October 2010), is a humorous and moving story about starting over and raises questions about religion, home, and what kind of world we want to make.
More information here.
CHITRA DIVAKARUNI & GISH JEN
7:30 pm (doors open 6:45 pm)
Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
800 Bagby Directions and parking
Reading followed by an onstage interview, book sale and signing, where audience members can meet the author. Click here to submit questions for Divakaruni and Jen.
CHITRA DIVAKARUNI, born in India, is the award-winning author of 16 books, including novels, short stories, poetry collections, and children’s books. She has been published in more than 50 magazines, included in more than 50 anthologies, and translated into 18 languages. Her novel, Sister of My Heart, was a national bestseller and her story collection Arranged Marriage received an American Book Award. Two of her novels, The Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart, were made into films. About her latest novel, One Amazing Thing, which focuses on a diverse cast of characters trapped together during a crisis, The Huffington Post writes, "Divakaruni is a beautiful writer, using words as lithely and effortlessly as breathing, and while she breathes, she sings.” Divakaruni is a faculty member at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. To buy books by Chitra Divakaruni, click here.
GISH JEN’s work is known for its “trademark compassion, laser-like attention to detail, and quirky wit,” (Publishers Weekly). She is the author of three novels and a book of short stories, including a New York Times Notable Book, Typical American, shortlisted for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, and Mona in the Promised Land. About her story collection, Who’s Irish?, The New York Times Book Review says, "Jen's gift is for comedy that resonates, and sadnesses that arise with perfect timing from absurdities. Her subject matter is so appealing, it almost obscures the power and suppleness of her language.” Her fourth novel, World and Town (which will be released October 2010), is a humorous and moving story about starting over and raises questions about religion, home, and what kind of world we want to make.
More information here.
