Awards
Chitra’s work has been included in over 50 anthologies, including Best American Short Stories, cite>The O’Henry Prize Stories, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her book of short stories, Arranged Marriage, has won critical acclaim and the 1996 American Book Award, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and the PEN Josephine Miles Award for fiction.
Her literary awards include:
- The Hackney Literary award, Birmingham-Southern College, Alabama, 1988
- Barbara Deming Memorial Award, New York, 1989
- Editor’s Choice Award, Cream City Review, 1990
- Santa Clara Arts Council Award, California 1990, 1994
- Honorable mention, Paterson Poetry Prize, 1992, for Black Candle
- Gerbode Foundation Award, California, 1992
- 2 Pen Syndicated Fiction Awards, 1993 and 1994
- Pushcart Prize, 1994
- Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize, 1994
- C.Y. Lee Creative Writing Award, 1995
- Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, Best Fiction, 1996, for Arranged Marriage
- PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, 1996, for Arranged Marriage
- American Book Award, 1996, for Arranged Marriage
- California Arts Council Award, 1998
- Included in Best Books of 1997, Los Angeles Times, The Mistress of Spices
- Included in Best Paperbacks of 1998, Seattle Times, The Mistress of Spices
- Story, “Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter,” included in Best American Short Stories, 1999
- Pushcart Prize,2003.
- Included in O’Henry PrizeStories, 2003.
- South Asian Literary Association Distinguished Author Award, 2007.
- University of California at Berkekey, International House Alumna of the Year Award, 2008.
