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
Poetry
- Love Without a Story[15] Template:ISBN
- When God Is a Traveller.Template:ISBN,[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
- Women Who Wear Only Themselves Template:Webarchive, Speaking Tiger, 2021
- Adiyogi: The Source of Yoga (co-author with Sadhguru) Harper Element, 2017, Template:ISBN
- Sadhguru: More Than A Life, biography, Penguin Ananda, 2010 (third reprint)
- The Book of Buddha, Penguin, 2005 (reprinted several times)
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
See also
References
- ↑ Arundhathi Subramaniam. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
- ↑ Arundhathi Subramaniam. Retrieved 1 June 2008.
- ↑ Arundhathi Subramaniam's new volume of poetry is unpredictable and utterly compelling, Daruwalla, Keki(June 23, 2019). Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- ↑ Arundhathi Subramaniam. www.poetryinternational.com. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
- ↑ Arundhathi Subramaniam - JLF Houston. jlflitfest.org/(2013-09-17). Retrieved 2022-09-05.
- ↑ Arundhathi Subramaniam | The Raza Foundation, admin. Arundhathi Subramaniam - The Raza Foundation. Retrieved 2026-03-05.
- ↑ Journeys with God. The Hindu(7 November 2014).
- ↑ Arundhathi Subramaniam, Anamika, M Veerappa Moily win Sahitya Akademi Award. The Times of India(2021-03-14). Retrieved 2023-10-19.
- ↑ Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry. BigBridge.Org. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
- ↑ The Dance of the Peacock:An Anthology of English Poetry from India. Retrieved 5 January 2015. Template:Verify source
- ↑ Hidden Brook Press. Hidden Brook Press. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
- ↑ Arundhathi Subramaniam wins poetry prize. The Hindu(25 January 2015).
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Arundhathi Subramaniam's latest book is on Love, Venkataramanan, Geetha(15 August 2019). Retrieved 15 August 2019.
- ↑ Book Review: When God is a Traveller, Tandon, Vivek(5 December 2017). Retrieved 24 September 2014.
External links
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