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. The Mistress of Spices was on several Best Books lists, including the San Francisco Chronicle’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century.

Her literary awards include:

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