Arundhathi Subramaniam | |
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| Born | Arundhathi 1973 (age 51–52) Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India |
| Occupation | Poet, writer |
| Alma mater | JB Petit High School, St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, University of Mumbai [1] |
| Notable awards | Sahitya Akademi Award |
Arundhathi Subramaniam is an Indian poet and author, who has written about culture and spirituality [2] [3] [4] , she was born in Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, South India.
Subramaniam is a poet and writer based in Mumbai. [5] She is the author of 13 books of poetry and prose. [6]
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.[ citation needed ]
Her volume of poetry, When God Is a Traveller was the Season Choice of the Poetry Book Society,[ 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.[ citation needed ]
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]
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