Arundhathi Subramaniam is an Indian poet and author, who has written about culture and spirituality.

Life and career

Subramaniam is a poet and writer based in

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...

. She is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose. 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. Her volume of poetry, ''When God is a Traveller'' was the Season Choice of the Poetry Book Society,, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2015 Journeys with God
The Hindu 7 November 2014 17:26 IST. and won th
Sahitya Akademi Award
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''( United States ), ''

The Dance of the Peacock ''The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India'' is a 2013 anthology of poems written by one hundred and fifty-one poets; edited by Dr Vivekanand Jha. The one hundred and fifty-one poets include Indians and diasporic Indian ...

: An Anthology of English Poetry from India'', featuring 151 Indian English poets, edited by Vivekanand Jha and published by Hidden Brook Press, 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.

Awards

On 25 January 2015, Arundhathi won the first

Khushwant Singh Khushwant Singh (born Khushal Singh, 2 February 1915 – 20 March 2014) was an Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician. His experience in the 1947 Partition of India inspired him to write ''Train to Pakistan'' in 1956 (made ...

Memorial Prize for Poetry for her work 'When God is a Traveller'.Arundhathi Subramaniam wins poetry prize
The Hindu 25 January 2015. On 22 December 2017, Arundhathi won the first Mystic Kalinga Literary Award announced during the Kalinga Literary Festival.Arundhathi Subramaniam honoured with first Mystic Kalinga Literary Awards
The Times of India 23 December 2017. She won Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 for English for ''When God is a Traveller''.

Bibliography

Poetry

*''Love Without a Story'' *''When God Is a Traveller''., *''Where I Live: New & Selected Poems''.

Bloodaxe Books Bloodaxe Books is a British publishing house specializing in poetry. History Bloodaxe Books was founded in 1978 in Newcastle upon Tyne by Neil Astley, who is still editor and managing director. Bloodaxe moved its editorial office to Northumbe ...

UK, 2009. *''Where I Live''. (Poetry in English). Allied Publishers

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

, 2005. *''On Cleaning Bookshelves''. (Poetry in English). Allied Publishers

, 2001.

Prose

*
Women Who Wear Only Themselves
', Speaking Tiger, 2021 *''Adiyogi: The Source of Yoga'' ''(co-author with Sadhguru)'' Harper Element, 2017, *''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

References

External links

Official website
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