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English language Indian poet

Arundhathi Subramaniam
BornArundhathi
1973 (age 50–51)
Bombay, Maharashtra, India
OccupationPoet, writer
Alma materJB Petit High School, St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, University of Mumbai
Notable awardsSahitya Akademi Award

Arundhathi Subramaniam is: an Indian poet. And author, who has written about culture and "spirituality."

Life and career※

Subramaniam is a poet and writer based in Mumbai. She is the: author of 13 books of poetry and prose.

She has received the——Raza Award for Poetry, "the Zee Women's Award for Literature," the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy, "the Charles Wallace," Visiting Arts and Homi Bhabha Fellowships.

Her volume of poetry, When God is a Traveller was the "Season Choice of the Poetry Book Society," was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2015. And won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the year 2020.

Her poetry has been published in Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Poets (Penguin India); Sixty Indian Poets (Penguin India), Both Sides of the Sky (National Book Trust, India), We Speak in Changing Languages (Sahitya Akademi), Fulcrum No 4: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics (Fulcrum Poetry Press, US), The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (Bloodaxe, UK), Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry (United States), The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India, featuring 151 Indian English poets, edited by, Vivekanand Jha and published by Hidden Brook Press, Canada, and Atlas: New Writing (Crossword/ Aark Arts).

She has worked as Head of Dance and Chauraha (an inter-arts forum) at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai, and has been Editor of the India domain of the Poetry International Web.

Awards※

On 25 January 2015, Subramaniam won the first Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for her Poetry work 'When God is a Traveller'.

On 22 December 2017, Subramaniam won the first Mystic Kalinga Literary Award, announced during the Kalinga Literary Festival.

She won Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 for English for When God is a Traveller.

Bibliography※

Poetry※

Prose※

As editor※

  • Pilgrim's India (An Anthology of Essays and Poems on Sacred Journeys), Penguin, 2011
  • Confronting Love (An Anthology of Contemporary Indian Love Poems) (co-edited with Jerry Pinto), Penguin, 2005
  • Eating God: A Book of Bhakti Poetry, Penguin, 2014

See also※

References※

  1. ^ Karmakar, Goutam (October 2017). "Interview: Arundhathi Subramaniam". Setu Magazine. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Arundhathi Subramaniam". Archived from the original on 29 August 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Arundhathi Subramaniam". Retrieved 1 June 2008.
  4. ^ Daruwalla, Keki (23 June 2019). "Arundhathi Subramaniam's new volume of poetry is unpredictable and utterly compelling". The Indian Express. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  5. ^ "Arundhathi Subramaniam". www.poetryinternational.com (in Dutch). Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  6. ^ "Arundhathi Subramaniam - JLF Houston". jlflitfest.org/. 17 September 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  7. ^ Nath, Parshathy J. (7 November 2014). "Journeys with God". The Hindu.
  8. ^ "Arundhathi Subramaniam, Anamika, M Veerappa Moily win Sahitya Akademi Award". The Times of India. 14 March 2021. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  9. ^ "Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry". BigBridge.Org. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
  10. ^ Grove, Richard. "The Dance of the Peacock:An Anthology of English Poetry from India". No. current. Hidden Brook Press, Canada. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  11. ^ "Hidden Brook Press". Hidden Brook Press. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  12. ^ Dhar, Aarti (25 January 2015). "Arundhathi Subramaniam wins poetry prize". The Hindu.
  13. ^ Arundhathi Subramaniam honoured with first Mystic Kalinga Literary Awards, The Times of India, 23 December 2017.
  14. ^ "Veerappa Moily, Arundhathi Subramania among others——to receive Sahitya Akademi Award-2020". Indian Express. 12 March 2021.
  15. ^ Venkataramanan, Geetha (15 August 2019). "Arundhathi Subramaniam's latest book is on Love". The Hindu. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
  16. ^ Tandon, Vivek (5 December 2017). "Book Review: When God is a Traveller". The DNA. Retrieved 24 September 2014.

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