Arundhathi Subramaniam | |
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| Born | Arundhathi 1973 (age 50–51) 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 |
Arundhathi Subramaniam is an Indian poet and author, who has written about culture and spirituality.[2][3][4]
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[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]
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]
