Sujata Bhatt (born 6 May 1956) is an Indian poet.
Life and career
Sujata Bhatt was born in
Ahmedabad,
Gujarat
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and brought up in
Pune
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until 1968, when she immigrated to
United States
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with her family. She has an
MFA from the
University of Iowa
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, and for a time was writer-in-residence at the
University of Victoria
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,
Canada
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. She received the
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(
Asia
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) and
Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize
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for her first collection ''Brunizem'' in 1987.
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/ref> She received a Cholmondeley Award
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in 1991 and Italian Tratti Poetry Prize in 2000. She has translated Gujarati
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* Gujarati people, the major ethnic group of Gujarat
* Gujarati language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them
* Gujarati languages, the Western Indo-Aryan sub ...
poetry into English
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for the ''Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Indian Women Poets''. Combining Gujarati
Gujarati may refer to:
* something of, from, or related to Gujarat, a state of India
* Gujarati people, the major ethnic group of Gujarat
* Gujarati language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them
* Gujarati languages, the Western Indo-Aryan sub ...
and English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
, Bhatt writes "Indian-English rather than Anglo-Indian poetry."[Schmidt, Michael: ''Lives of Poets'', p860. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998.] Michael Schmidt (poet) observed that her "free verse is fast-moving, urgent with narratives, softly spoken. Bhatt lives in Bremen, Germany
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with her husband, the German writer Michael Augustin, and daughter.
Poetry collections
*1988 ''Brunizem'' Carcanet Press
*1989 ''The One Who Goes Away'' Carcanet Press
*1991 ''Monkey Shadows'' Carcanet Press
*1995 ''The Stinking Rose'' Carcanet Press
*1997 ''Point No Point'' Carcanet Press
*2000 ''Augatora'' Carcanet Press
*2002 ''The Colour of Solitude'' (Second edition) Carcanet Press
*2008 ''Pure Lizard'' Carcanet Press
*---- ''A Different History''
References
External links
Profile and poems written and audio at the Poetry Archive
poems written archived at The Poetry Society UK
British Council profile
BBC Radio 4. ''Woman's Hour'' 4 July 2002 (Audio 5 mins)
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1956 births
Indian women poets
20th-century Indian women writers
English-language poets from India
Living people
Gujarati people
German people of Indian descent
20th-century Indian poets
Poets from Gujarat
Women writers from Gujarat
Writers from Ahmedabad