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Arundhathi Subramaniam is an Indian poet and author, who has written about culture and spirituality.[1][2][3] She was born in Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, South India.

Life and career

Subramaniam is a poet and writer based in Mumbai.[4] She is the author of 13 books of poetry and prose.[5]

She has received the Raza Award for Poetry,[6] the Zee Women's Award for Literature, the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy, the Charles Wallace, Visiting Arts and Homi Bhabha Fellowships.Template:Citation needed

Her volume of poetry, When God Is a Traveller was the Season Choice of the Poetry Book Society,Template: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.Template:Citation needed

Awards

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 the Sahitya Akademi Award for English in 2020 for When God Is a Traveller.[14]

Bibliography

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Poetry

Prose

As editor

  • 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

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See also

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References

  1. Arundhathi Subramaniam. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  2. Arundhathi Subramaniam. Retrieved 1 June 2008.
  3. Arundhathi Subramaniam's new volume of poetry is unpredictable and utterly compelling, Daruwalla, Keki(June 23, 2019). Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  4. Arundhathi Subramaniam. www.poetryinternational.com. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  5. Arundhathi Subramaniam - JLF Houston. jlflitfest.org/(2013-09-17). Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  6. Arundhathi Subramaniam | The Raza Foundation, admin. Arundhathi Subramaniam - The Raza Foundation. Retrieved 2026-03-05.
  7. Journeys with God. The Hindu(7 November 2014).
  8. Arundhathi Subramaniam, Anamika, M Veerappa Moily win Sahitya Akademi Award. The Times of India(2021-03-14). Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  9. Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry. BigBridge.Org. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
  10. The Dance of the Peacock:An Anthology of English Poetry from India. Retrieved 5 January 2015. Template:Verify source
  11. Hidden Brook Press. Hidden Brook Press. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  12. Arundhathi Subramaniam wins poetry prize. The Hindu(25 January 2015).
  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. Arundhathi Subramaniam's latest book is on Love, Venkataramanan, Geetha(15 August 2019). Retrieved 15 August 2019.
  16. Book Review: When God is a Traveller, Tandon, Vivek(5 December 2017). Retrieved 24 September 2014.

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