Chitra Ramaswamy

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Chitra Ramaswamy
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Ramaswamy at the 2024 St. Andrew's Book Festival
Born1979 (age 45–46) [1]
Nationality British
Alma mater University of Glasgow
OccupationJournalist

Chitra Ramaswamy is a British journalist of South Asian descent. Her books are Homelands: The History of a Friendship, published by Canongate Books, and Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy, published by Saraband.

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Ramaswamy is currently a restaurant critic in Scotland for the Alba supplement in the Scottish edition of The Sunday Times . [2] She was one of the Guardian's TV reviewers. [3]

Biography

Ramaswamy grew up in Richmond, London. [4] She has a BA in English Literature from University of Glasgow. [5] She is bisexual [6] and lives in Edinburgh, Scotland with her partner Claire and two children. [7]

Awards and honours

In 2016, Ramaswamy won a Scottish first book award: Saltire Society Literary Awards' First Book of the Year Award. [8] and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize [9] In 2022, Homelands: The History of a Friendship was listed by The Guardian as one of its memoirs of 2022. [10] and the Saltire Society Non-Fiction Book of the Year. [11]

Books

References

  1. ↑ Ramaswamy, Chitra (6 March 2017). "Brick Lane in the 80s: before it became Banglatown". TheGuardian.com .
  2. ↑ "Chitra Ramaswamy | The Times & The Sunday Times". The Times .
  3. ↑ "Chitra Ramaswamy | The Guardian". the Guardian.
  4. ↑ "Author Chitra Ramaswamy on the forging of an unlikely friendship that inspired a book charting Europe's darkest hour".
  5. ↑ Ramaswamy, Chitra (30 September 2019). "I returned to uni for freshers' week 20 years after leaving. Here's what has changed". TheGuardian.com . Retrieved 2023-05-26.
  6. ↑ "Chitra Ramaswamy: Soon I'll be the Invisible Woman". The Scotsman. June 30, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Homelands by Chitra Ramaswamy - Canongate Books". canongate.co.uk.
  8. ↑ "Scotland's National Book Awards 2016". 30 June 2016.
  9. ↑ "Polari Salon".
  10. ↑ Sturges, Fiona (3 December 2022). "The best memoirs and biographies of 2022". TheGuardian.com .
  11. ↑ "Scotland's National Book Awards 2022: Winners". The Saltire Society. December 8, 2022.
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