Arundhathi Subramaniam is an Indian poet and author, who has written about culture and spirituality.[2][3][4]
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 |
Life and career
editSubramaniam 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
editOn 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
editPoetry
edit- 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
edit- Women Who Wear Only Themselves Archived 26 October 2021 at the Wayback Machine, Speaking Tiger, 2021
- Adiyogi: The Source of Yoga (co-author with Sadhguru) Harper Element, 2017, ISBN 978-9352643929
- Sadhguru: More Than A Life, biography, Penguin Ananda, 2010 (third reprint)
- The Book of Buddha, Penguin, 2005 (reprinted several times)
As editor
edit- 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
edit- ^ Karmakar, Goutam (October 2017). "Interview: Arundhathi Subramaniam". Setu Magazine. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
- ^ "Arundhathi Subramaniam". Archived from the original on 29 August 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
- ^ "Arundhathi Subramaniam". Retrieved 1 June 2008.
- ^ Daruwalla, Keki (23 June 2019). "Arundhathi Subramaniam's new volume of poetry is unpredictable and utterly compelling". The Indian Express. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- ^ "Arundhathi Subramaniam". www.poetryinternational.com (in Dutch). Retrieved 5 September 2022.
- ^ "Arundhathi Subramaniam - JLF Houston". jlflitfest.org/. 17 September 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
- ^ Nath, Parshathy J. (7 November 2014). "Journeys with God". The Hindu.
- ^ "Arundhathi Subramaniam, Anamika, M Veerappa Moily win Sahitya Akademi Award". The Times of India. 14 March 2021. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- ^ "Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry". BigBridge.Org. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
- ^ 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]
- ^ "Hidden Brook Press". Hidden Brook Press. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
- ^ Dhar, Aarti (25 January 2015). "Arundhathi Subramaniam wins poetry prize". The Hindu.
- ^ Arundhathi Subramaniam honoured with first Mystic Kalinga Literary Awards, The Times of India, 23 December 2017.
- ^ "Veerappa Moily, Arundhathi Subramania among others to receive Sahitya Akademi Award-2020". Indian Express. 12 March 2021.
- ^ Venkataramanan, Geetha (15 August 2019). "Arundhathi Subramaniam's latest book is on Love". The Hindu. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
- ^ Tandon, Vivek (5 December 2017). "Book Review: When God is a Traveller". The DNA. Retrieved 24 September 2014.