Bharati Mukherjee | |
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 Speaking at the US Ambassador's residence in Israel, June 11, 2004 | |
| Born | Bharati Mukherjee July 27, 1940 Calcutta, Bengal Province, British India (present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India) |
| Died | January 28, 2017 (aged 76) New York City, U.S. |
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| Nationality | Indian American Canadian |
| Genre | Novels, short stories, essays, travel literature, journalism. |
| Subjects | Post-colonial Anglophone fiction, Asian American fiction, autobiographical narratives, memoirs, American culture, immigration history, reformation and nationhood in the '90s, multiculturalism vs. mongrelization, fiction writing, autobiography writing, and the form and theory of fiction. |
| Notable works | Jasmine |
| Spouse | Clark Blaise |
Bharati Mukherjee (July 27, 1940 – January 28, 2017) was an Indian American-Canadian writer and professor emerita in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She was the author of a number of novels and short story collections, as well as works of nonfiction.[1]
- ^ "Holders of the Word: An Interview with Bharati Mukherjee". Tina Chen and S.X. Goudie, University of California, Berkeley]