Arundhathi Subramaniam

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Arundhathi Subramaniam
Arundhathi Subramaniam bharat-s-tiwari-photography-IMG 4208 January 27, 2018.jpg
BornArundhathi
India
OccupationPoet, writer, Journalist, critic, Curator
Alma materJB Petit High School, St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, University of Mumbai
Notable awardsSahitya Akademi Award

Arundhathi Subramaniam is an Indian poet, writer, critic, curator, translator, Journalist, writing in English.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Life and career[edit]

ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM is the award-winning author of thirteen books of poetry and prose, including the recent poetry volume, Love Without a Story, and a book of essays on contemporary women on sacred journeys, Women Who Wear Only Themselves. Her other work includes the acclaimed sacred poetry anthology, Eating God and the bestselling biography of a mystic, Sadhguru: More Than a Life. A well-known prose writer on Indian spirituality, she has been a long-standing arts critic, anthologist, performing arts curator and poetry editor.

She is the recipient of various awards and fellowships, including the Sahitya Akademi Award, the inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Zee Women’s Award for Literature, the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy, the Mystic Kalinga award, the Charles Wallace, Visiting Arts and Homi Bhabha Fellowships, among others. She has written extensively on culture and spirituality, and has worked over the years as poetry editor, cultural curator and critic. 

Arundhathi Subramaniam's volume of poetry, When God is a Traveller (2014) was the Season Choice of the Poetry Book Society, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. She is the recipient of various awards and fellowships, including the Sahitya Akademi Award, inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Zee Women's Award for Literature, the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy, the Mystic Kalinga award, the Charles Wallace, Visiting Arts and Homi Bhabha Fellowships, among others. Arundhathi has won the Sahitya Akademi Award for When God is a Traveller .

As prose writer, her books include The Book of Buddha, a bestselling biography of a contemporary mystic, Sadhguru: More Than a Life and most recently, Women Who Wear only Themsleves (Speaking Tiger, 2021). As editor, her most recent book is the Penguin anthology of sacred poetry, Eating God.

Her poetry has been published in various international journals and anthologies, including 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[7]( United States ), The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India,[8] featuring 151 Indian English poets, edited by Vivekanand Jha and published by Hidden Brook Press,[9] 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.

Awards[edit]

  • Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry: On 25 January 2015, Arundhathi won the first Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry for her work When God is a Traveller. The prize was announced as part of ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival.[10]
  • Mystic Kalinga Literary Award: On 22 December 2017, Arundhathi won the first Mystic Kalinga Literary Award for her work in English Literature. The prize was announced as part of Mystic Kalinga - An International Festival of Mythology, poetry and performance, Kalinga Literary Festival.[11]

Bibliography[edit]

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Books[edit]

Poetry collections[edit]

  • Love Without a Story. [[Amazon Westland[13]]],[14] ISBN 978-9388689458
  • When God Is a Traveller.[15] ISBN 978-9388689458,[16] ISBN 978-9388689458 Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2014. ISBN 978-9351363019
  • Where I Live: New & Selected Poems. Bloodaxe Books UK, 2009.
  • Where I Live. (Poetry in English). Allied Publishers India, 2005.
  • On Cleaning Bookshelves. (Poetry in English). Allied Publishers India, 2001.

Prose[edit]

  • Women Who Wear Only Themselves, Speaking Tiger, 2021
  • Adiyogi: The Source of Yoga (co-author with Sadhguru) Harper Element, 2017, ISBN 978-9352643929
  • Sadhguru: More Than A Life, biography, Penguin Ananda, 2010 (third reprint)
  • The Book of Buddha, Penguin, 2005 (reprinted several times)

As Editor[edit]

  • Pilgrim’s India (An Anthology of Essays and Poems on Sacred Journeys), Penguin, 2011
  • Confronting Love (An Anthology of Contemporary Indian Love Poems) (Co-edited with Jerry Pinto), Penguin, 2005
  • Eating God: A Book of Bhakti Poetry, Penguin, 2014

Essays[edit]

Interviews[edit]

Appearances in the following poetry Anthologies[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Biography of Arundhathi Subramaniam".
  2. ↑ "Arundhathi Subramaniam".
  3. ↑ "Interview: Arundhathi Subramaniam". Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  4. ↑ "Arundhathi Subramaniam".
  5. ↑ "Arundhathi Subramaniam". Retrieved 1 June 2008.
  6. ↑ "Arundhathi Subramaniam's new volume of poetry is unpredictable and utterly compelling". The Indian Express. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  7. ↑ "Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry". BigBridge.Org. Retrieved 9 June 2016. [verification needed]
  8. ↑ Grove, Richard. "The Dance of the Peacock:An Anthology of English Poetry from India". No. current. Hidden Brook Press, Canada. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2015. [verification needed]
  9. ↑ Press, Hidden Brook. "Hidden Brook Press". Hidden Brook Press. Retrieved 5 January 2015. [verification needed]
  10. ↑ Arundhathi Subramaniam wins poetry prize, The Hindu 25 January 2015.
  11. ↑ Arundhathi Subramaniam honoured with first Mystic Kalinga Literary Awards, The Times of India 23 December 2017.
  12. ↑ "Veerappa Moily, Arundhathi Subramania among others to receive Sahitya Akademi Award-2020". Indian Express. 12 March 2021.
  13. ↑ https://www.amazon.in/Love-Without-Story-Arundhathi-Subramaniam/dp/9388689453/ref=sr 1 2?qid=1555921023&refinements=p 27%3AArundhathi+Subramaniam&s=books&sr=1-2
  14. ↑ "Arundhathi Subramaniam's latest book is on Love". The Hindu. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
  15. ↑ "When God Is a Traveller".
  16. ↑ "Book Review: When God is a Traveller". The DNA. Retrieved 24 September 2014.

External links[edit]

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