Bharati Mukherjee (1940–2017)
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Bharati Mukherjee was born in Calcutta, India on July 27, 1940. She received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Calcutta in 1959 and a master's degree from the University of Baroda in 1961. After sending six stories to the University of Iowa, she was accepted into the Iowa toon meer Writers' Workshop. She received an M.F.A. in 1963 and a doctorate in comparative literature in 1969 from the University of Iowa. She married fellow student Clark Blaise, a Canadian author, in 1963. They moved to Montreal in 1966, where she taught English at McGill University. They moved back to the United States in 1980. After teaching creative writing at Columbia University, New York University, and Queens College, she taught postcolonial and world literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She wrote numerous books during her lifetime including The Tiger's Daughter, Wife, Darkness, Jasmine, The Holder of the World, Desirable Daughters, The Tree Bride, and Miss New India. In 1988, The Middleman and Other Stories won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. She died from complications of rheumatoid arthritis and takotsubo cardiomyopathy, a stress-induced heart condition, on January 28, 2017 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Photo by Chip Cooper
Werken van Bharati Mukherjee
Darkness Angela and Other Stories (Short Fiction) 14 exemplaren
The Management of Grief 5 exemplaren
Virago New Writing for the 90's 1 exemplaar
Orbiting 1 exemplaar
Mukherjee, Bharati Archive 1 exemplaar
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- 1940-07-27
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- 2017-01-28
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- India (birth)
USA (naturalized | 1988) - Geboorteplaats
- Kolkata, India
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- New York, New York, USA
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- rheumatoid arthritis (complications)
takotsubo cardiomyopathy - Woonplaatsen
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
San Francisco, California, USA - Opleiding
- University of Iowa (PhD)
University of Iowa (MFA)
University of Kolkata (MA)
Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (BA) - Beroepen
- writer
university professor - Relaties
- Blaise, Clark (spouse)
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- University of California, Berkeley
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