Chitra Ramaswamy | |
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Born | 1979 (age 44–45)[1] |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Glasgow |
Occupation | Journalist |
Chitra Ramaswamy is a London journalist of South Asian descent. Her books are Homelands: The History of a Friendship, published by Canongate Books, and Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy, published by Saraband.
Ramaswamy is currently a restaurant critic in Scotland for the Alba supplement in the Scottish edition of The Sunday Times.[2] She is one of the Guardian's TV reviewers.[3]
Ramaswamy grew up in Richmond, London.[4] She has a BA in English Literature from University of Glasgow.[5] She is bisexual[6] and lives in Edinburgh, Scotland with her partner Claire and two children.[7]
In 2016, Ramaswamy won a Scottish first book award: Saltire Society Literary Awards' First Book of the Year Award.[8] and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize[9] In 2022, Homelands: The History of a Friendship was listed by The Guardian as one of its memoirs of 2022.[10] and the Saltire Society Non-Fiction Book of the Year.[11]