Arundhathi Subramaniam is an Indian poet and author, who has written about culture and spirituality.[2][3][4]
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Born | Arundhathi 1973 (age 38-39) Bombay, Maharashtra, India |
Occupation | Poet, writer |
Alma mater | JB Petit High School, St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, University of Mumbai[1] |
Notable awards | Sahitya Akademi Award |
Subramaniam is a poet and writer based in Mumbai.[5] She is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose.[6]
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.[citation needed]
Her volume of poetry, When God is a Traveller was the Season Choice of the Poetry Book Society,[citation needed], was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2015[7] 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[8]( United States ), The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India,[9] featuring 151 Indian English poets, edited by Vivekanand Jha and published by Hidden Brook Press,[10] 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.[citation needed]
On 25 January 2015, Arundhathi won the first Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry for her work 'When God is a Traveller'.[11]
On 22 December 2017, Arundhathi won the first Mystic Kalinga Literary Award announced during the Kalinga Literary Festival.[12]
She won Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 for English for When God is a Traveller.[13]
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