Chitra Ramaswamy
Chitra Ramaswamy | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Glasgow |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Chitra Ramaswamy is a British journalist of South Asian descent and the author of 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 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 | The Times & The Sunday Times". www.thetimes.co.uk.
- ^ "Chitra Ramaswamy | The Guardian". the Guardian.
- ^ "I returned to uni for freshers' week 20 years after leaving. Here's what has changed". Retrieved 2023-05-26.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Chitra Ramaswamy: Soon I'll be the Invisible Woman". The Scotsman. June 30, 2013.
- ^ "Homelands by Chitra Ramaswamy - Canongate Books". canongate.co.uk.
- ^ "Scotland's National Book Awards 2016".
- ^ "Polari Salon".
- ^ "The best memoirs and biographies of 2022".
- ^ "Scotland's National Book Awards 2022: Winners". The Saltire Society. December 8, 2022.