Chitra Ramaswamy
Chitra Ramaswamy | |
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Born | |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Glasgow |
Occupation | Journalist |
Chitra Ramaswamy is a British journalist of South Asian descent. She is known for Homelands: The History of a Friendship, published by Canongate Books, and Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy, published by Saraband.
Ramaswamy is a restaurant reviewer for The Times[1] and TV reviewer for The Guardian.[2]
Biography
Ramaswamy received a bachelor's degree in English Literature from University of Glasgow.[3]
She is bisexual[4] and lives in Edinburgh, Scotland with her partner and two young children.[5]
Awards and honours
In 2016, Ramaswamy won the Saltire Society Literary Awards' First Book of the Year Award[6] and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize[7].
In 2022, Homelands: The History of a Friendship was named one of The Guardian's best memoirs of 2022.[8] and the Saltire Society Non-Fiction Book of the Year.[9]
Books
- Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy (2016, Saraband, ISBN 978-1-9101-9221-4)
- Homelands: The History of a Friendship (2022, Canongate Books, ISBN 978-1-8388-5266-5)
References
- ^ "Chitra Ramaswamy profile at The Times".
- ^ "Chitra Ramaswamy profile at The Guardian".
- ^ "I returned to uni for freshers' week 20 years after leaving. Here's what has changed". Retrieved 2023-05-26.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Soon I'll be the Invisible Woman".
- ^ "Chitra Ramasawmy at Canongate".
- ^ "Scotland's National Book Awards 2016".
- ^ "Polari Salon".
- ^ "The best memoirs and biographies of 2022".
- ^ "Scotland's National Book Awards 2022: Winners".