Arundhathi Subramaniam

Arundhathi Subramaniam is an Indian poet and author, who has written about culture and spirituality.[2][3][4]

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[1]
Notable awardsSahitya Akademi Award

Life and career

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Subramaniam is a poet and writer based in Mumbai.[5] She is the author of 13 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[8] 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[9] (United States), The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India,[10] featuring 151 Indian English poets, edited by Vivekanand Jha and published by Hidden Brook Press,[11] 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]

Awards

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On 25 January 2015, Subramaniam won the first Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for her Poetry work 'When God is a Traveller'.[12]

On 22 December 2017, Subramaniam won the first Mystic Kalinga Literary Award, announced during the Kalinga Literary Festival.[13]

She won Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 for English for When God is a Traveller.[14]

Bibliography

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Poetry

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  • Love Without a Story[15] ISBN 978-9388689458
  • When God Is a Traveller.ISBN 978-9388689458,[16]
  • Where I Live: New & Selected Poems. Bloodaxe Books UK, 2009.
  • Where I Live (Poetry in English). Allied Publishers India, 2005.
  • On Cleaning Bookshelves (Poetry in English). Allied Publishers India, 2001.

Prose

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As editor

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  • 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

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References

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  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. [verification needed]
  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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