Sujata Bhatt (born 6 May 1956) is an Indian poet.

Life and career

Sujata Bhatt was born in Ahmedabad,

Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...

and brought up in

Pune Pune (; ; also known as Poona, ( the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million As of 2021, Pune Metropolitan Region is the largest i ...

until 1968, when she immigrated to

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...

with her family. She has an MFA from the

University of Iowa The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is organized into 12 col ...

, and for a time was writer-in-residence at the

University of Victoria The University of Victoria (UVic or Victoria) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The university traces its roots to Victoria College, the first post-secondary insti ...

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

. She received the

Commonwealth Poetry Prize The Commonwealth Poetry Prize was an annual poetry prize established in 1972, for a first published book of English poetry from a country other than the United Kingdom. It was initially administered jointly by the Commonwealth Institute and the Nat ...

(

Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an are ...

) and

Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize The Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize was awarded by the Poetry Society of London for a collection of poetry. It is named after Alice Hunt Bartlett who was the American editor of the society's '' Poetry Review'' from 1923 to 1949. The prize was establis ...

for her first collection ''Brunizem'' in 1987.Profile at the Poetry Archive
/ref> She received a

Cholmondeley Award The Cholmondeley Awards () are annual awards for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966. Since 1991 the award has be ...

in 1991 and Italian Tratti Poetry Prize in 2000. She has translated

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 ...

poetry into

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 ...

for the ''Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Indian Women Poets''. Combining

and

, 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 Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

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 Archivepoems written archived at The Poetry Society UKBritish Council profile

BBC Radio 4. ''Woman's Hour'' 4 July 2002 (Audio 5 mins)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bhatt, Sujata 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