Sujata Bhatt (born 6 May 1956) is an Indian poet.
Sujata Bhatt was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat and brought up in Pune until 1968, when she immigrated to United States with her family.[ citation needed ] She has an MFA from the University of Iowa, and for a time was writer-in-residence at the University of Victoria, Canada.[ citation needed ] She received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize for her first collection Brunizem in 1987. [1] She received a Cholmondeley Award in 1991 and Italian Tratti Poetry Prize in 2000. [1] She has translated Gujarati poetry into English for the Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Indian Women Poets. Combining Gujarati and English, Bhatt writes "Indian-English rather than Anglo-Indian poetry." [2] Michael Schmidt (poet) observed that her "free verse is fast-moving, urgent with narratives, softly spoken. [2] Bhatt lives in Bremen, Germany with her husband, the German writer Michael Augustin, and daughter. [1]
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